apparently this movie set out to make it viewer feel bad and and it certainly work for me . this be one of the dull script i have see turn into movie lately . have read sk4ek comment on this and maybe it would be fair to add that it be make from a novel and and i watch the subtitle version ( and i do not understand japanese ) and so it seem i probably do not get a lot of what make the novel good . anyway and the script be all about what a gargantuan ahole kitano character be and but whatever else happen just doesn not add much to the story . just imagine the bad thing a father could possibly do to his family and sequence them on a timeline and and you have the plot of this movie . but there simply be no character evolvement and no turn point and nothing that give an interesting twist to thing and they only keep get bad . mild spoiler belowonce i think the story be go to take off and when another illegitimate son of ahole father move in with the family and finally someone who have the potential to give a swerve to the plot line . after be defeat in a fistfight and he tell the boy who narrate the whole story to study hard and walk away and get shot ten day later off screen . segue bore story continue . the cinematography be alright and but not outstanding and and not enough to save this movie .