When their long-estranged father dies, three grown-up sisters impulsively invite the half-sister they’ve never known (she’s the daughter of the father’s second wife) to move into their large house in Kamakura. Kore-eda Hirokazu’s most female-centric film, adapted from a famous manga by Yoshida Akimi, is less about sisterly bonds than about familial tensions, rivalries and what it takes to overcome them. Sensitive, emotionally acute and, of course, beautiful. Tony Rayns

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu
Cast: Ayase Haruka, Nagasawa Masami, Kaho, Hirose Suzu

Runtime: 128 mins