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Develops into a powerfully emotional experience thanks to a career-best performance by Toni Collette.Full Review

David Stratton
Variety

Gradually the full arc of Toni Collette's performance reveals itself, and we see that the end was there even in the beginning. This is that rare sort of film that is not about what happens, but about what happens then.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

Looks at isolation and the fragility of human relationships. It's a poignant, unsettling motion picture that will baffle those who have become used to Hollywood's compact, tidy endings. Full Review

James Berardinelli
ReelViews

This is an origami story, really, about what a construction of chance the big world is.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

When the credits roll and the mood breaks, Japanese Story finally reveals itself as more dewy-eyed than deep, but as long as the mood holds, it holds fast.Full Review

Keith Phipps
The Onion (A.V. Club)
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