Best Wishes to All

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Best Wishes to All

2024

1h 29m

Horror

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A young woman's visit to her grandparents' home leads to the discovery of what's brought them happiness, a revelation that will lead her to question her choices, sanity and reality itself.

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David Fear

Rolling Stone

Jun 16

It is, hands down, the best Japanese horror movie in decades, and quite possibly the single best horror movie you’ll see this year, period.

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

Jun 13

The thinly veiled commentary on aspects of modern Japanese society may fly over offshore viewers’ heads streaming on Shudder, but genre fans will appreciate the bizarre story’s sinister, twisty progress.

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Zachary Lee

RogerEbert.com

Jun 13

3/4

The type of unsettling, high-concept horror film that knows exactly what it wants to be and executes it with unforgiving verve.

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Noah Berlatsky

Splice Today

Oct 13

It’s in the tradition of Kafka or David Lynch, where the failure to cohere is part of the logic of nightmare.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

Sep 15

3.5/5

A film that uses resources from horror and suspense films to develop a story that has much to say about the nature of human happiness and the selfishness inherent in many people who only think about themselves. [Full review in Spanish].

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Karina Adelgaard

Heaven of Horror

Aug 11

4/5

While it’s a very efficient psychological horror movie, it also has several physical elements to its story. Often in ways that are more shocking and icky than downright brutal and cruel.

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Hugo S

Jul 12

A compassionate girl leaves Tokyo to visit her grandparents in the countryside. Upon her arrival, she becomes aware of the disturbing behaviour of the elderly couple. The strange occurrences reveal the terrifying source of her family's happiness, challenging the young girl's sanity and perception of reality. "Best Wishes To All" is a dark and satirical view on the cost of happiness, reminding us how contentment strongly depends on the exploitation of those who are in a vulnerable position — a perverse kind of happiness. The story uses symbolic and conceptual imagery to pass its social commentary. Despite some of its excessive weirdness, the movie is an interesting piece of artsy and unsettling filmmaking.

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Diet Dr. Paul .

Jul 11

Super unique and incredibly surprising! This is why I love Asian genre films, second only to those from Australia. Just remember, if your friends or family offer your some of their homemade miso… say no!

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Logan L

Jun 28

The allegory around which Best Wishes To All revolves is both an interesting, if dark, one and a prominent one. Some of the weirder scenes feel a little forced, and the execution of the premise leaves something to be desired, but this is still one of the better Japanese films in a while.

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Erica C

Jun 21

Huh?? Didn’t get it at all.

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Stuart R

@PRAGMATICADDICT Jun 20

I just became exhausted and over it.🍀

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prawnda s

Jun 16

the premise has potential, but the pacing is all over the place and it's kind of a bore to sit through. i was really surprised this was right around 90 minutes because it feels like hours. the allegory becomes obvious very fast, and then it just drags on and on without much of any purpose, and cant seem to figure out where to put the climax. if someone made a fan edit and trimmed it down to like 50 or 60 minutes and rearranged some scenes it would be much better, but i can't see anyone being into the story enough to make that fan edit. it's definitely a flop, but it at least has nice scenery.

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Yuta Shimotsu

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Kotone Furukawa

Grand daughter

Koya Matsudai

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Yoshiko Inuyama

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Hirofumi Nishida

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Shiho Yoshimura

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Synopsis

A young woman's visit to her grandparents' home leads to the discovery of what's brought them happiness, a revelation that will lead her to question her choices, sanity and reality itself.

Director: Yuta Shimotsu
Producer: Takeshi Kikuchi, Atsushi Igarashi
Screenwriter: Rumi Kakuta
Distributor: Shudder
Production Co: Kadokawa
Genre: Horror
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 13, 2025
Runtime: 1h 29m

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