2020 · drama · comedy · disaster
The Asadas!
Directed by Ryota Nakano2h 7m2020
Masashi is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro. Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
Our read: The Asadas! (2020) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · comedy · disaster entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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