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Monster (2023)

PG-13 11/22/2023 (US) Drama 2h 5m

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Are they the ones we dream of, or the ones we fail to see among us?

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When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher, and child, the truth gradually emerges.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

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Yuji Sakamoto

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Top Billed Cast

Sakura Ando

Saori Mugino
Eita Nagayama

Michitoshi Hori
Soya Kurokawa

Minato Mugino
Hinata Hiiragi

Yori Hoshikawa
Yûko Tanaka

Makiko Fushimi
Mitsuki Takahata

Hirona Suzumura
Akihiro Kakuta

Shoda Fumiaki
Shido Nakamura

Kiyotaka Hoshikawa
Ryu Morioka

Kanzaki
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A review by Lachlan Thiele

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Written by Lachlan Thiele on May 18, 2023

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.

Monster is a multi-layered beast; it retells one story from multiple perspectives giving us the whole cookie instead of just the crumbs. Usually, I'm a crumb kinda guy; I like to figure things out myself, putting them all together to get my cookie. Still, Kore-eda gives me the cookie; at points, he... read the rest.

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