The Old Young Crow (2023) User Reviews

The Old Young Crow

[BandSAboutMovies · 7/10 · 4 October 2023]

Liam LoPinto has created this movie -- which has some animation and some live action -- about an Iranian boy befriending an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

We hear the story told by Mehrdad (Naoto Shibata as a young one, Hassan Shahbazi in his older age) who remembers the Japanese woman and how he learned about grief and loss. It's an incredible mix of media that creates this film, a joy to watch and experience. As I always say, I cannot and will not live these lives, so the chance to do so through film is so important.

If you get the opportunity to see this, take it. It is a special movie.

Mehrad and Chiyo

[Kirpianuscus · 20 January 2024]

A lonely boy , refugied, after school classes, in cemetery, for drawing.

A venerable lady at the grave front him.

Her invitation to boy, her stories, her gift to him.

After decades, his confession, sustained by the sketchbook , about encounter and its significations, about the connection between an Iranian boy loosing his mother and, in some measure, his contry, and a Japanese lady lossing her son.

And a crow on grave.

Poetic, beautiful crafted, it has the gift to offer to viewer a profound personal message , like a wood spoon , stirring in memories pot of audience.

In short, lovelz and useful, beautiful and touching, in same measure.