Placido M. I just discovered Koreeda's films and I'm surprised, and angry with myself, I didn't know about this great director and storyteller. The film is a wonderful story about parenthood in which its hardship and beauty are well balanced.The story drives the audience into the lives of two (almost antagonistic) families who had to go through a tough situation together, a situation imposed by a third party in the past. Koreeda tell us the story by examining these two very different families. By portraying these almost antagonistic families the story creates contrast and allow the characters to grow an evolution while they discovered themselves. I will not say more... watch it if you are looking for touching, delightful and well directed story about family and love.

eryui While I liked some moving and sweet moments, being a father myself, I didn't like too much this movie for a few reasons.The first it's that the "bad" father looks like a little plausible one, brought to force the film to be a moving one and to accentuate the conflict.The second, even more important, is that the reason of the main issue, as is as it was shown, looks very improbable.Anyway, there is not need of a great culture or intelligence to understand that the sons are own by whoever grown them. The blood issue is secondary in such cases. Sure the movie lets you think for a moment about natural son versus adopted one, but the choice, in this particular case, however hard, it is naturally obligated. Both the sons were not babies anymore. Too late. The easiest solution should be, of course and obviously, the one it was going to be at the end of the movie. An hard but simple solution that every movie character understood from the start, but, casually, not the "bad" father.The film is somehow sweet, thanks to the children, and it shows a rare dilemma that could be hard to digest, but that's it all. There is not much more in here, apart how important is for a son to be supported and spend time with his father, whoever he is. Who didn't know this yet?7/10

arif-ashraf-opu It's story of exchanging kid between two families. Accidentally, during their birth, kids were swapped between two families. Before entering the elementary school, due to medical check up, it revealed. Then two family start to negotiate among them and so on. But it's not that easy to say a 6 year old kid that they are no more their parents and he has to call "papa-mama" to someone else. At some point it turn out that to accept the truth is the hardest part in this world. And it's not true for only grown up, but for kids too. Adjustment to new surrounding and new people may be much more easier for a kid, but when we talk about changing the core relationship, it's not that adjustable.True masterpiece from Hirokazu Koreeda.

Raven-1969 "Work hard now, so there is no struggle later" declares a hard-driving and pushy Dad. As if work makes the man. As if it is so simple. Upon discovering his 6-year-old son was switched at birth, the Dad continues to focus on form and not heart. The family taking care of his real son is everything that he is not; fun-loving, adventuresome, and loving of the natural world. He pools his lawyers and his money in order to prove a point, yet the point proved may be his own demise. Though the story might be better developed in places, the theme is compelling and poignant, the actors are believable, and the disparate characters are intriguing. Winner of a Cannes festival jury prize. This film is about the importance of achieving real connections with others.