Still Walking
(Aruitemo Aruitemo)

Yokohama, summertime. While grandma is busy in the kitchen, grandpa, a retired doctor, scowls at the idea of having his children and grandchildren to stay. A grandma bustling around to attend to everyone’s needs and temper her husband’s distant air, banal conversations and little jibes, everyone seems to be thrilled with this reunion, wanting to act as if the reasons for meeting together were buried deep. In Still Walking, appearances are never misleading, they simply convey the depth, contours, colours and intensities of human emotions. The family has to make do with the situation so they can walk a little further and give themselves the chance to see a butterfly’s heart-warming flight. JB