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International Premiere, Open Cinema, 2025

Bring Him Down to a Portable Size

오빠를 들고 갈 수 있는 사이즈로兄を持ち運べるサイズに

Director NAKANO Ryota

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Family/ChildComedy/Satire

Riko’s brother is dead. A good-for-nothing who never got a proper job, constantly pestered his younger sister for money, and didn′t even attend their mother′s deathbed. Just when it seemed he was living well after getting married and having a child, he quickly got divorced. He was selfish and a burden all his life, and suddenly died. Is four days enough to wrap up a person′s life? Riko leaves home to see off the brother she used to hate, on his final journey. With Bring Him Down to a Portable Size, director Nakano Ryota—who is talented for unfolding family stories with warmth and humor in films like Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016), A Long Goodbye (2019), and The Asadas (2020)—questions the things that need to be said because you are a family, yet are often left unsaid for that very reason. Shibasaki Ko and Odagiri Joe handle the potentially heavy and uncomfortable subject matter with light, relaxed performances, offering a hopeful ending note.

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Bring Him Down to a Portable Size 1 — 2025 Bring Him Down to a Portable Size Film Partners

Screenings2

Thu, 09/18

09:0011:07

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 3

047KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Tue, 09/23

20:0022:07

Busan Cinema Center BIFF Theatre

403KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: NAKANO Ryota
Original title: 兄を持ち運べるサイズに
Country/Region: Japan, China, France
Year: 2025
Length: 127min
Section: Open Cinema
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: Japanese
Premiere: International Premiere
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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NAKANO Ryota

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Director: NAKANO Ryota
Producer: Shinji OGAWA, Takeshi KATAYAMA, Yusuke WAKABAYASHI, Megumi KUBOTA
Cast: Ko SHIBASAKI, Jo ODAGIRI, Hikari MITSUSHIMA, Yota MIMOTO, Himeno AOYAMA, Yoichiro SAITO, Naoki TAKAHASHI, Yusuke KAMIO, Mitsuru FUKIKOSHI, Norihiro URAI
Music: Hiroko SEBU
Production company: BRIDGEHEAD Co., Ltd.
World sales: Culture Entertainment Inc.

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