Let's Go, Grandma!

Overview

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling her Hokkaido property, is apparently flush with cash but newly homeless. Her grown children take turns hosting her, making extravagant performances of filial devotion with an eye to potential profit. Making use of a catalog of wacky visual effects, bracketed by gratuitous ham-fisted fight scenes, and costarring pop singer Hideki Saijo, the film is balanced by Tanaka's nuanced performance, which delivers a denunciation of hypocrisy and greed.

Cast

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kiku Sasaki

Hideki Saijo

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Yūko Katagiri

Junko Natsu

Kimiko Ikegami

Masuyo Iwamoto

N/A

Akiyoshi Kitaura

Hyo Kitazawa

Masao Komatsu

Akiko Nomura

Shunji Sayama