Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth, he must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.
Like Father, Like Son is a delicate, overlong charmer that creates credible dilemmas from the situation in which the two families find themselves.
Hirokazu Koreeda’s rather predictable and sentimental parable about social engineering.
Another quiet delight from Koreeda.
Rich and very moving.
It is affecting and charming, but not Kore-eda's best work.
The result is a deceptively rich and rewarding drama, small of gesture, huge of heart.
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