2017 · comedy · drama · adventure
Survival Family
Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi1h 57m2017
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
Our read: Survival Family (2017) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
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“You want a warm Japanese family dramedy where a blackout forces a road adventure.”
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