Our Little Sister

(Unimachi Diary, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan 2015, 127 min., DCP, Japanese w/subtitles)

Adapted from Yoshida Akimi’s best-selling graphic novel, three twenty-something sisters live together in a large old house in the seaside town of Kamakura. When they learn of their estranged father’s death, they decide to travel to the countryside for his funeral. There they meet their shy teenage half-sister for the first time and, bonding quickly, invite her to live with them. Amidst the many and varied colors of Kamakura’s four season, the four sisters cause each other emotional anguish, and support each other through life’s trials, developing a special bond in the process.