Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Still Walking (2008) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, YOU, Kazuya Takahashi, Shohei Tanaka, Hotaru Nomoto DIRECTOR: Hirokazu Kore-eda CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yutaka Yamazaki MUSIC: Gontiti PRODUCTION: Eisei Gekijo, TV Man Union, Bandai Visual, Cinequanon, Engine Film Group

Box Office Performance

Still Walking earned $167,047 domestically and $3,344,073 internationally, for a worldwide total of $3,511,120. International markets drove the majority of revenue (95%), indicating strong global appeal.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Production

In an interview with Kore-eda included in the Blu-Ray release of the movie, the director candidly discussed how much – but not all – of the movie was motivated by memories of his own childhood and the eventual death of his mother. On the same disk, a short "making of" supplement showed how many of the film's scenes were brought to life from the script during rehearsals or invented outright while shooting on location in what appeared to be the Yokohama area south of Tokyo.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Summary: 11 wins & 9 nominations total

CRITICAL RECEPTION

Still Walking received wide acclaim from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports a perfect approval rating of based on reviews, with a weighted average of . The site's consensus reads: "Hirokazu Kore-eda's film may seem modest at first, but this family drama casts a delicate, entrancing spell". Metacritic ranked the film at 89%, which was based on 21 reviews. In a Chicago Sun-Times review, Roger Ebert gave the work four stars and touted that Kore-eda is an heir of Yasujirō Ozu. Trevor Johnston of Sight & Sound wrote that "however one positions Still Walking in the firmament of Japan's cinematic achievements, one thing is sure: it belongs up there with the masters." The film won the Asian Film Award for Best Director, and was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. It was also the choice of Joshua Rothkopf in IndieWire's 2018 list of the best Japanese films of the 21st century.