Monster

After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

Cast

Soya Kurokawa

as Minato Mugino

Hinata Hiiragi

as Yori Hoshikawa

Sakura Ando

as Saori Mugino

Eita Nagayama

as Michitoshi Hori

Yuko Tanaka

as Makiko Fushimi

Mitsuki Takahata

as Hirona Suzumura

Akihiro Kakuta

as Shoda Fumiaki

Shido Nakamura

as Kiyotaka Hoshikawa

Ryu Morioka

as Kanzaki

Daisuke Kuroda

as Shinagawa

Reviews

Lachlan Thiele

INT. COOKIE MONSTER – NIGHT Monster is the latest entry in the Kore-eda filmography (a filmography I still need to dive deeper into). Still, just like his previous films, It's a deeply personal look into a character, their motives but most importantly, how that motive affects those around them. ...

Lachlan Thiele

Brent Marchant

The perspective from which we view a situation infallibly provides us with a clear, irrefutable picture of its truthfulness, right? But what happens if we encounter someone who witnesses the same incident and comes away from it with a totally different interpretation? Both views can’t be “right,” ca...

CinemaSerf

I'm not usually a fan of children leading films, but hats have to come off here for a really delightful performance from the young Hinata Hiiragi as the shy and shunned "Hoshikawa". We will get to him in a minute, but first the film is delivered in three parts as a fire slowly devours a city centre ...

badelf

This film is the highest compliment to Kurasawa's Rashoman I've ever seen. Others have tried the (perhaps bonsai rule-of-three inspired) triple-POV, but I've always just witnessed a "yeah, so what." But this film - Kore-Eda's vision? Kurasawa himself would stand up and bow. It takes the master's sty...

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