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Tadanobu Asano, Eri Ishida, Aoi Miyazaki, Jô Odagiri, Yuka Itaya ... see more see more... , Ken Mitsuishi

A damaged man experiences a series of odd coincidences that send his life careening down a path he never anticipated in director/screenwriter Shinji Aoyama's semi-sequel to his critically acclaimed 20... read more read more...00 drama Eureka. When Kenji was just a young boy, his mother abandoned the family and his father committed suicide. These days Kenji (Tadanobu Asano) can't seem to hold down a regular job, instead choosing to work part time as a designated driver for tipsy bar hostesses and their randy clients. Occasionally, he even assists local gangsters in trafficking illegal immigrants. Everything changes for Kenji, however, when in just a matter of days he meets both the woman who will bear his future child as well as his own long-missing mother Chiyoko (Eri Ishida). Now, as Kenji ponders the depressive realization that his mother left he and his father behind in favor of starting a new family, the past and the future come crashing together, forcing the uncertain drifter to try and make sense of his own fractured existence. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Unrated, 2 hr. 16 min.

Directed by: Shinji Aoyama

Release Date: December 31, 2007

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Jay Weissberg
July 9, 2008
Jay Weissberg, Variety

Only those already won over by recent Shinji Aoyama will coddle to Sad Vacation, the prolific helmer's latest overlong, confused meditation on family and abandonment. Full Review

Keith Uhlich
July 9, 2008
Keith Uhlich, UGO

There's something willfully obscurantist about Sad Vacation, as if it is, first and foremost, a private joke between writer/director Shinji Aoyama and his performers. Full Review

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