After the Storm (2016) on Netflix
Ryota Shinoda once won a literary prize; now he works as a private detective and gambles away his pay. Behind on child support, he wants his place in his son's life.
- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb7.4/1014,447 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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Plot summary
Fifteen years after a single novel won him a literary prize, Ryota Shinoda works as a private detective and spends his money on gambling, so child support for his son Shingo is often late. He is offered work writing for a manga series, but his pride holds him back. His father has died, and his mother Yoshiko lives alone in her apartment, where his sister Chinatsu visits often. Kyoko, his ex-wife, has tired of his excuses and has a new boyfriend; Ryota fears that her remarriage would end the time he spends with Shingo. A typhoon forces the family to shelter together overnight at Yoshiko's apartment.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about After the Storm (2016)
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- Hirokazu Kore-eda conceived of After the Storm in 2001, when he visited his mother, who had been living alone in a housing complex after his father's death.
