A Quiet Life

There are three children in one family. The eldest is a young man with an intellectual disability. He has a gift for music and composes. His sister wants to draw picture books. The younger brother is preparing for university entrance. Their father is a well known novelist. For a period the man is in poor mental health. He is invited to Australia and goes. The mother travels with him. The three are left alone at home. The daily running of things falls to the sister. She looks after her brother and takes him out walking. There are dangers outside as well. The film was adapted from a novel by Kenzaburō Ōe. The music was written by the novelist’s own son. Hinako Saeki and Atsuro Watabe appear in the hundred and twenty one minute film, a Japanese production Jūzō Itami finished in 1995.