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Harmonium
Film poster
Directed by	Kōji Fukada
Written by	Kōji Fukada
Starring	Tadanobu Asano Mariko Tsutsui Kanji Furutachi
Release dates	14 May 2016 (Cannes) 8 October 2016 (Japan)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Harmonium (淵に立つ, Fuchi ni Tatsu) is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Kōji Fukada. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival^[1][2] where it won the Jury Prize.^[3]

Plot[edit]

Toshio (Furutachi), his wife Akie (Tsutsui), and their daughter Hotaru (Shinokawa) live a banal existence. Toshio operates a machine shop in his garage when suddenly an old acquaintance of Toshio's, Yasaka (Asano) arrives to help out at the shop. Hotaru practices the harmonium but is obviously a novice. Yasaka had just been released from prison and so without a permanent place to stay, Toshio takes him in as an assistant. Yasaka bonds with Hotaru, helping her with her music, and being helpful around the shop and house. Yasaka reveals to Akie that he was imprisoned for eleven years as a result of murder, asks for forgiveness for not mentioning this earlier, and slowly Yasaka becomes a greater part of the family. Yasaka and Akie have some romantic feelings for each other, and Toshio becomes suspicious as the family goes on a river trip. The movie also reveals that Yasaka is bitter about taking the blame for the murder, which Toshio participated in.

Later when they return, when Toshio is out of the house, Yasaka oversteps his bounds trying to kiss Akie and she pushes him away. After this he goes for a walk and sees Hotaru. Later, Toshio finds Hotaru, injured and unresponsive, with Yasaka standing over her. Yasaka stands, shouting Toshio's name repeatedly, but Toshio does not respond as he is preoccupied with his daughter. Yasaka then walks off and disappears.

Eight years later, Toshio hires a new assistant, Takashi (Taiga). Takashi was raised by a single mother and takes some interest in the now disabled and non-verbal Hotaru, sketching her. Akie has become extremely protective of her daughter. Takashi reveals separately to Toshio and Akie that he is the illegitimate son of Yasaka, that Yasaka was a member of the yakuza, and that he wanted to be employed by Toshio based on letters Yasaka sent to his mother before he disappeared. After Takashi stands too close to Hotaru, Akie kicks him out of the house. Akie confronts Toshio about his involvement in the murder. Later, Toshio receives a tip on the location of Yasaka, and Akie and Toshio take Takashi to kill him in front of his father. Takashi offers himself willingly, which is rejected by the pair. The tip is only of someone who looks similar to Yasaka and having reached her breaking point, Akie takes Hotaru to a bridge, where she jumps (pulling Hotaru with her). The film ends with Toshio trying to resuscitate Hotaru.^[4][5]

Cast[edit]

• Tadanobu Asano
• Mariko Tsutsui
• Kanji Furutachi
• Taiga
• Takahiro Miura
• Momone Shinokawa

Awards[edit]

Year	Award ceremony	Category	Recipients	Result
2016	Cannes Film Festival[3]	Un Certain Regard Jury Prize	Harmonium	Won
2017	11th Asian Film Awards[6]	Best Film	Harmonium	Nominated
		Best Director	Koji Fukada	Nominated
		Best Actor	Tadanobu Asano	Won
2017	Mainichi Film Concours[7]	Best Actress	Mariko Tsutsui	Won

References[edit]

1. ^ "2016 Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup". IndieWire. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
2. ^ "Cannes 2016: Film Festival Unveils Official Selection Lineup". Variety. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
3. ^ Jump up to:^a b Rebecca Ford and Rhonda Richford (21 May 2016). "Cannes: 'The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki' Wins Un Certain Regard Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
4. ^ "'Harmonium': Dangerously good family drama - The Japan Times". 28 September 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
5. ^ "'Harmonium' ('Fuchi ni Tatsu'): Cannes Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 15 May 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
6. ^ Frater, Patrick (11 January 2017). "'Handmaiden,' 'Bovary,' 'Train' Lead Asian Film Awards Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
7. ^ "Mainichi Film Awards Picks "Shin Godzilla" as Best Japanese Film of 2016".

External links[edit]

• Harmonium at IMDb

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淵に立つ
Harmonium
第29回東京国際映画祭に登壇した深田晃司、真広佳奈、筒井真理子、太賀
監督	深田晃司
脚本	深田晃司
製作	新村裕 澤田正道
製作総指揮	福嶋更一郎 大山義人
出演者	浅野忠信 筒井真理子 古舘寛治 太賀
音楽	小野川浩幸
主題歌	HARUHI「Lullaby」[1]
撮影	根岸憲一
編集	深田晃司
製作会社	『淵に立つ』製作委員会
配給	エレファントハウス カルチャヴィル
公開	2016年5月14日（カンヌ国際映画祭）[2]  2016年10月8日
上映時間	119分
製作国	フランス  日本
言語	日本語
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『淵に立つ』（ふちにたつ、英題:Harmonium）は、2016年の日本・フランス合作のドラマ映画である^[3]。監督を深田晃司、主演を浅野忠信が務めている^[4]。第69回カンヌ国際映画祭にて、「ある視点」部門の審査員賞を受賞した^[5]。

あらすじ[編集]

町工場を営む利雄は、妻子との会話はあまりないもののとくに波風の立たない穏やかな家庭を有していた。そこにある日、利雄の古い友人である八坂が現われる。前科をもつ八坂は出獄して間もない身の上であり、その身を案じる利雄はさっそく自宅の一室を彼のために貸すのだった。突然のことに動揺する妻・章江も八坂の人当たりの良さと誠実さに好感をもった。通っている教会での演奏会のためオルガン練習に余念のない娘・蛍も、演奏に長けアドバイスしてくれる八坂になついてゆくのだった。すっかり家族同然になった八坂は、あるとき章江に殺人を犯したことを告白するが、すでに彼に揺るぎない信頼を寄せていた章江にとっては、むしろ八坂への感情が愛情に変わるきっかけとなるばかりであった。家族が八坂を核として動き始めた実感を得たとき、彼による暴挙は始まった。すべてを目の当たりにし狼狽する利雄をおいて、八坂はつむじ風のように暴れ、そして去っていった。

8年の月日が流れた。町工場は平穏を取り戻してはいたが、家族には言い知れぬ痛みを伴う傷跡が残されていた。皆のため失踪した八坂を探させる利雄ではあったが、時の流れがいつしか諦めの気持ちを彼に抱かせていた。利雄の工場では、勤めていた青年・設楽の退職に伴い後継者として孝司という若者が出入りするようになっていた。熱意をもつ孝司は好意的に迎えられていたが、ふとしたことから利雄に、自分の父親が八坂であることを洩らす。孤児であり父親の記憶はない、と弁明する彼だったが、家族の忌まわしい記憶を掘り起こさせるには十分であった。利雄は章江に対し、八坂と自分にまつわる秘密を明らかにするが、もはやそれは遅すぎた告白であった。

探偵の調査の結果、撮影された八坂とおぼしき写真をたよりに家族は地方へと旅立つ。その旅路の果てに待つものは何かを、家族たちは祈るような気持ちをこめて注視し続けた。

キャスト[編集]

• 浅野忠信 - 八坂草太郎
• 筒井真理子 - 鈴岡章江
• 古舘寛治 - 鈴岡利雄
• 太賀 - 山上孝司
• 三浦貴大 - 設楽篤
• 篠川桃音 - 鈴岡蛍
• 真広佳奈 - 鈴岡蛍（8年後）

スタッフ[編集]

• 監督・脚本・編集 - 深田晃司
• 主題歌 - HARUHI「Lullaby」
• 音楽 - 小野寺浩幸
• 撮影 - 根岸憲一
• 照明 - 高村智
• 録音・効果 - 吉方淳二
• 美術 - 鈴木健介
• 編集コンサルタント - Julia Gregory
• 助監督 - 山門朔、石井千晴、浜潟尚
• ラインプロデューサー - 南陽
• サウンドデザイン - Olivier Goinard
• 工場所作指導 - 藤田製作所（藤田進、関川大介）
• 農業指導 - 金子秀富
• 介護指導 - 松本明子、鈴木貴子、生井志津子
• アクション - 西田真吾、山東文発、辻やすこ、高木友、浅見奉史
• ポスプロ - COMME DES CINEMAS
• Special Thanks - 池田晃、村上正樹、平田オリザ、二宮佑己子
• プロデューサー - 新村裕、澤田正道
• 制作プロデューサー - 戸山剛
• 制作協力 - メディア・トレーディング、トーキョーガレージ
• エグゼクティブプロデューサー - 福嶋更一郎、大山義人
• 共同製作 - 浅井賢二（名古屋テレビ放送）、Anne Pernod（COMME DES CINEMAS）、長谷川康子（MAM FILM）、牧和男（イオンエンターテイメント）、増田英明（エレファントハウス）、木原康博（MAM）、市村友一（朝日新聞社）
• 企画 - 米満一正、深田晃司
• 製作 -『淵に立つ』製作委員会（名古屋テレビ放送、MAM FILM、イオンエンターテイメント、エレファントハウス、朝日新聞社）、COMME DES CINEMAS

上映[編集]

2016年9月6日、東京都のユーロライブにて完成披露試写会が行われた^[6][7]。同年10月8日、全国50スクリーンで一般公開された^[8]。10月30日、第29回東京国際映画祭の「Japan Now」部門にて上映された^[9]。

評価[編集]

『Variety』のマギー・リーは、「本作は、ロベール・ブレッソンや大島渚に通じる批評的な思慮深さをもって、家族のあいだの傷に迫っている」と指摘した^[10]。『The Hollywood Reporter』のデボラ・ヤングは、「日本で最も革新的な映画作家のひとりである深田晃司は、豊かで得体の知れない本作において、彼本来の調子を取り戻している」と評価した^[11]。

受賞[編集]

• 第69回カンヌ国際映画祭（2016年）^[12][13]
  • 「ある視点」部門 審査員賞
• 第38回ヨコハマ映画祭（2016年）^[14]
  • 主演女優賞（筒井真理子）
  • 最優秀新人賞（太賀）
• ELLE シネマ大賞2016（2016年）^[15]
  • ベストディレクター賞（深田晃司）
• 第31回高崎映画祭（2017年）^[16]
  • 最優秀作品賞
  • 最優秀主演女優賞（筒井真理子）
• 第90回キネマ旬報ベスト・テン （2017年）^[17]
  • 日本映画ベスト・テン 第3位
• 第71回毎日映画コンクール（2017年）^[18]
  • 女優優主演賞（筒井真理子）
• 第67回芸術選奨（2017年）^[19]
  • 文部科学大臣新人賞（深田晃司）
• 第11回アジア・フィルム・アワード（2017年）^[20]
  • 最優秀主演男優賞（浅野忠信）
• 第17回ラス・パルマス・デ・グラン・カナリア国際映画祭（2017年）
  • 観客賞

脚注[編集]

1. ^ “深田晃司監督、浅野忠信主演「淵に立つ」主題歌はHARUHIの新曲に決定！”. 映画.com (2016年8月4日). 2016年10月7日閲覧。
2. ^ “カンヌで浅野忠信、深田晃司監督らに満場のスタンディングオベーション”. 映画.com (2016年5月17日). 2016年8月21日閲覧。
3. ^ “浅野忠信主演の日仏合作「淵に立つ」、カンヌ映画祭のある視点部門に正式出品”. 映画ナタリー (2016年4月14日). 2016年8月21日閲覧。
4. ^ “浅野忠信×深田晃司のカンヌ受賞作「淵に立つ」緊張感みなぎる予告編公開”. 映画ナタリー (2016年8月12日). 2016年8月21日閲覧。
5. ^ “深田晃司監督、浅野忠信主演作「淵に立つ」がカンヌ「ある視点」部門審査員賞受賞”. 映画.com (2016年5月22日). 2016年8月21日閲覧。
6. ^ “浅野忠信、「淵に立つ」で演じた“怪しい男”は「僕にぴったりの役柄」”. 映画ナタリー (2016年9月7日). 2016年9月15日閲覧。
7. ^ “浅野忠信「僕にしかできない役」…主演映画「淵に立つ」完成披露試写”. スポーツ報知 (2016年9月7日). 2016年9月15日閲覧。
8. ^ “「淵に立つ」20カ国以上で配給決定! 深田晃司監督「グローバルな日本映画になれた」”. 映画.com (2016年10月8日). 2016年10月20日閲覧。
9. ^ “「淵に立つ」深田晃司監督、“映画の神様”の粋な計らいにガッツポーズ!”. 映画.com (2016年10月30日). 2017年3月27日閲覧。
10. ^ Lee, Maggie (2016年5月15日). “Cannes Film Review: ‘Harmonium’”. Variety. 2016年8月21日閲覧。
11. ^ Young, Deborah (2016年5月15日). “'Harmonium' ('Fuchi ni Tatsu'): Cannes Review”. The Hollywood Reporter. 2016年8月21日閲覧。
12. ^ “浅野忠信、主演映画『淵に立つ』カンヌで審査員賞受賞「最高です!」”. ORICON STYLE (2016年5月22日). 2016年8月21日閲覧。
13. ^ “カンヌ受賞の喜びを深田晃司監督と太賀が語る『淵に立つ』”. エンタメステーション (2016年10月16日). 2016年10月16日閲覧。
14. ^ “第38回ヨコハマ映画祭 - 2016年日本映画個人賞”. ヨコハマ映画祭 (2016年12月3日). 2017年3月27日閲覧。
15. ^ “エルが選ぶ2016年映画賞 授賞式に黒木華や菅原小春が登場”. Fashionsnap.com (2016年12月20日). 2017年3月27日閲覧。
16. ^ “浅野忠信主演「淵に立つ」高崎映画祭で最優秀作品賞”. 日刊スポーツ. (2017年1月6日) 2017年1月6日閲覧。
17. ^ “キネマ旬報ベスト・テン決定、「この世界の片隅に」「ハドソン川の奇跡」が1位に”. 映画ナタリー. (2017年1月10日) 2017年1月10日閲覧。
18. ^ “毎日映画コンクールで「シン・ゴジラ」が大賞ほか3冠獲得、「君の名は。」は2冠”. 映画ナタリー. (2017年1月19日) 2017年1月19日閲覧。
19. ^ “「第67回芸術選奨」演劇部門は金剛永謹、橋爪功、浦井健治が受賞 近藤良平、宮藤官九郎、深田晃司らも選出”. シアターガイド (2017年3月9日). 2017年3月27日閲覧。
20. ^ “浅野忠信、アジア・フィルム・アワードで主演男優賞!”. 映画.com (2017年3月22日). 2017年3月27日閲覧。

関連文献[編集]

小説

• 深田晃司 『淵に立つ』ポプラ社、2016年。ISBN 978-4-591-15145-7。

外部リンク[編集]

• 公式ウェブサイト
• 淵に立つ (@fuchinitatsu) - Twitter
• 淵に立つ (fuchimovie) - Facebook
• 淵に立つ - allcinema
• 淵に立つ - KINENOTE
• Fuchi ni tatsu - IMDb（英語）

HARMONIUM (2016)

In Koji Fukada’s Harmonium, the fragile harmony of a Japanese family is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

On the Edge

BY ALEXA DALBY

Harmonium

★★★★★

https://www.dogandwolf.com/2017/05/harmonium-2016/

CAUTION: Here be spoilers

An ordinary Japanese family is having breakfast in the kitchen of their flat. Father Toshio (Kanji Furutachi) has a small metalwork shop below, mother Akie (Mariko Tsutsui) is a Christian and a housewife, and cute little daughter Hotaru (Momone Shinokawa) is learning to play the harmonium. Their domestic harmony, such as it is, suddenly lurches into unknown territory when a mysterious stranger, conspicuously dressed in a white shirt buttoned to the neck and formal black trousers, appears at the door of Toshio’s workshop. Yasaka (Tadanobu Asano) is an old friend, Toshio says, and he offers him the job he’s looking for, but Yasaka’s withdrawn, indefinably sinister demeanour has a subtly unsettling effect. He moves into the spare room and quickly ingratiates himself with the family, teaching Hotaru to play a new tune and paying Akie the attention that she doesn’t get from her emotionally unavailable husband.

But the breakfast scene that opens the film also signposts something strange lurking beneath the surface. In the background, Hotaru’s metronome is ticking. Akie says grace but only she and Hotaru observe it; Toshio ignores her and carries on eating. The conversation between mother and daughter lingers on mother spiders that allow their children to eat them. The fragility of their family life is thrown into relief by Yasaka’s presence. He alarms Akie by confessing to her that he murdered someone and has just been released from prison. He and Toshio have a secret understanding. Though apparently behaving as a polite model guest, Yasaka seems to have the motive of deliberately causing a rift that could destroy his hosts.

Midway through the film there’s a shocking incident and the action abruptly skips forward eight years. Hotaru has grown up (Kana Mahiro). Yasaka is no longer there and Toshio now has an apprentice, an open-faced, enthusiastic young man, Takashi (Taiga). Their life has changed in ways they could not have imagined. But again, all is not as it seems as Takashi unwittingly reveals some startling information that in his naivety he does not realise the significance of. It leads to a sudden, heartrending tragedy of Shakespearean proportions.

Director Koji Fukada (Au Revoir l’Été) starts by framing the shots as in a typical Japanese family drama, but it’s deceptive – in the second part of the film, he opens it out into stunning, wild countryside that’s a backdrop to ramped-up emotions. Harmonium is also a companion piece to his black comedy Hospitalité, which also featured Furutachi – but in contrast it’s a disturbing, dark, heartbreaking drama with merciless twists that give no easy answers to complex questions of forgiveness and redemption, and how relationships may be based on truth or lies. Its title in Japanese is Fuchi ni Tatsu, which translates as “on the brink” or “standing on the edge” – which is where the protagonists come to realise they are. It’s a film which stays with you long after it is over.

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Harmonium won the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival and is released on 5 May 2017 in the UK.

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Harmonium review: A sadistically playful family drama

Koji Fukada’s tale of bad-ass bad karma toys with us – and then toys with us some more

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The softness and straightness of the performances obscure the monstrous melodrama underneath

Tara Brady Harmonium

Wed May 3 2017 - 17:00

Harmonium

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Director: Kōji Fukada

Cert: Club

Genre: Drama

Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Mariko Tsutsui, Kanji Furutachi, Taiga

Running Time: 1 hr 58 mins

Toshio (Kanji Furutachi) lives in the suburbs with his wife, Akie (Mariko Tsutsui), and young daughter, Hotaru (Momone Shinokawa). One day, Yasaka (Tadanobu Asano), a former acquaintance, turns up at the small machine shop Toshio operates out of his garage.

Toshio gives Yasaka, who has just been released from prison, a job, although neither man seems particularly happy to see the other. Akie is initially discombobulated by this new presence, but slowly, she warms to the mysterious Yasaka, who takes more interest in her and in her daughter’s ear-battering harmonium playing than her distant husband does.

Has this apparently gentle guest served 11 years for murder in lieu of Toshio? Is the devoutly Christian Akie falling for him? Domestic strife looms, until a horrific act of sexual violence leaves everyone in the mood for vengeance.

Koji Fukada's new film initially looks like a tranquil family drama, something that might make for a pleasing double bill alongside the quietly compelling contemporary Japanese cinema of Hirokazu Koreeda (Our Little Sister) or Ryota Nakano (Her Love Boils Bathwater).

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There are early hints of brutality and oddness. An early theological dinner-table conversation concerns the afterlife of a mother spider that allows her children to eat her. Harmonium soon twists to resemble an unwanted guest film, wherein a new element threatens to disrupt and usurp the bourgeois family order.

But, with a nod to Michael Haneke, writer-director Fukada isn’t done toying with us just yet.

The second half of this sadistically playful film – set eight years after the first, and centred on the care of a now quadriplegic and nonverbal family member – powers toward full-blown Shakespearean tragedy. A tale of bad-ass bad karma, as the Bard might not have put it.

Dark jokes serve as dumbshows: “Do we know why we asked you to come? So we can kill you,” Akie tells a hapless kid (Taiga), before adding the “punchline” – “I’m lying” – in a mirror image of an earlier joking-not-joking exchange. A darkly ironic beach selfie prefigures the horrendous denouement.

The softness and straightness of the performances obscure the monstrous melodrama underneath. Director of photography Kenichi Negishi’s framing seems to shrink as the various players are increasingly boxed in by impending doom.

We can feel their frustration and anger, yet the script withholds satisfactory motivations and explanations. If it weren’t so glum, one might well feel like a victim of a brilliantly cruel and vexing prank.

Tara Brady, a contributor to The Irish Times, is a writer and film critic

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Harmonium

Simon Abrams June 16, 2017

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You have to get used to the creeping pace of slow-boil Japanese revenge drama "Harmonium" in order to get on its wavelength. The film follows characters who are, if you distill them to their psychological profiles, not that different from the kinds of people you'd encounter in an Alfred Hitchcock movie or a Patricia Highsmith novel. Polite stranger Yasaka (Tadanobu Asano) disturbs the peace of emotionally unavailable patriarch Toshio (Kanji Furutachi) and flustered but curious wife Akie (Mariko Tsutsui). While there are a handful of moments after the sixty-minute mark that rely on plot twists, tonal shifts, and character-driven plotting, "Harmonium" is consistently about mood more than anything else. You sink into the film at first. Then, with each new leisurely introduced plot point, you struggle to regain your sense of calm since, after a while, the film's protagonists are doing the exact same thing.

"Harmonium," the latest film written and directed by Koji Fukada ("Hospitalite," "Sayonara"), largely moves at the speed of everyday routine. Characters go about their daily tasks. Akie oversees daughter Hotaru (Momone Shinokawa) as she practices on her harmonium. Toshio toils in his garage workshop. And Hotaru skips home from a nearby playground. Yasaka, an ex-convict and old acquaintance of Toshio's, is the only main character who has no set routine. His presence throws everybody off, but they eventually get used to him. They talk to him in a matter-of-fact tone for fear that something violent and abrupt will happen if they otherwise treat him like a threat. If they acknowledge that Yatsuka is a threat by changing their habits, then something bad will surely happen. Maybe he'll go away. Maybe he's as tranquil and non-threatening as he seems. Maybe he's not the boogeyman.

That uncertainty is the crux of "Harmonium": will Yasaka forgive Toshio of whatever crime or wrong-doing he's committed in the past? Or will Asano's character lash out at Toshio in all the ways we've come to expect from other revenge thrillers: ruin his business, hurt his daughter, and sleep with his wife?

Without giving anything away, I will say that "Harmonium" does inevitably go places that you expect it to. And it does not always get there in the most subtle ways. In a key—and immediately jarring scene—Yasaka breaks from his established character, and flat-out says that he wants everything Toshio has. Then Yasaka suddenly regains control of his emotions, and re-assures Toshio that he was only joking. You can't help but groan at this scene. It's like slamming on the brakes during a leisurely drive just so you can point at a giant billboard. We can't miss it, why did you stop?

But after a while, it becomes clear that "Harmonium" is, like the best revenge dramas, a movie about the failure of individual characters to regain their composure after tragic events. The second half of the film feels like a separate, but related narrative: everybody recovers after the events of the first hour by inviting a second stranger, Takashi (Taiga) into their midst. But both halves of the film are related in that the first part establishes a certain flow, and the second part shows our characters' vain attempts at regaining that flow. In this way, the second half reminds us of how tentative, or even illusory the first half's mood was. Maybe these characters were never at peace. Maybe there was never a time when they walked on eggshells around each other.

Your response to Fukada's latest depends, in that sense, on your ability and desire to get used to its lack of normal rhythm. "Harmonium" is slow, and deceptively tranquil for the most part. Occasionally, there are moments that jar you out of your complacency, and remind you of what's emotionally at stake. The movie functions on an emotional level rather than an intellectual one. If you don't get on its wavelength, you'll feel like you've wasted your time on a movie that is a bit like a slowed-down thriller whose impact has been lessened by the existence of superior novels and films, like "The Talented Mr. Ripley" or "Shadow of a Doubt." But if you treat "Harmonium" like a mood piece, and you do respond to it on that level, you'll find yourself thinking about it long after you watch it.

Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, and elsewhere.