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11/23/2005

Movie: My sons

I went to watch a Japanese movie in the university called My sons. An old man, Mr. Asano, has two sons and a daughter. He is a widower living in Iwate Perfecture, a place where you can see the mountain and very quiet and clean. His sons live in Tokyo. Tetsu, the younger son, cannot hold a job for very long. However, moving steel rods seems to agree with him. He is promoted from a part-time worker to a temporary worker with health and injury insurance. He meets a deaf-mute girl in a steel production factory and falls in love with her.
Mr. Asano comes to Tokyo in winter time to visit his elder son. This son asks him to come and live with them in the small apartment, but Mr. Asano refuses and bravely says that he is not afraid of dying alone in the country. He attends the reunion for soldiers with his friends from the army, sings the war song with his old comrades.
He is too worried about his younger son, so he goes to visit him before he leaves for the country. The younger son introduces him to his girlfriend, buying him a fax machine so the deaf-mute girl can write short letters to him. Mr. Asano has doubts about his younger son's seriousness of marrying this girl, drink beer and sing the song from old times.
The generation gap between young and old is large, but it is essential for the young people to spend some time with the old people. They can teach us a lot of things. I like this film, it is very relevant and reminds me of my grandfather.

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