Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. The poor peasant is about to become even more poor. The people, livestock and goods won't need his services much longer. His life also takes an abrupt turn another way. He meets a young girl on a day when everything was supposed to go like any other day.... (Full plot summary below)
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Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body of water and a bridge does not exist. The village high in the hills has a ferryman, but a bridge is in the works. The poor peasant is about to become even more poor. The people, livestock and goods won't need his services much longer. His life also takes an abrupt turn another way. He meets a young girl on a day when everything was supposed to go like any other day.
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| The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungIt’s a dreamy, unexpectedly rigorous debut that starts frustratingly slowly but ends with an emotional bang. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThey Say Nothing Stays the Same is a melodramatic, stately and beautiful Japanese period piece. |
| Original-CinKaren GordonOdagiri doesn’t give us many answers. They Say Nothing Stays the Same is enigmatic and, in some ways, frustratingly elusive, yet also affecting. |
| The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe landscape can go only so far in expressing Toichi’s mind-set, and the movie turns hokey when it dramatizes Toichi’s inner thoughts. |
