Japanese film master Hirokazu Kore-eda (I Wish, Air Doll) returns with another warm contemporary drama, wherein a rich family and poor family discover that their sons were switched at birth.

Successful architect Ryota Nonomiya (Masaharu Fukuyama) and his wife Midori (Machiko Ono) are celebrating their six-year-old son’s acceptance into a top primary school, only to find out that a mistake from their hospital means that they have someone else’s child, and that their biological son is being raised by another family. The two families are advised to meet, and over the next year, work to exchange the boys to their rightful parents. But Ryota is appalled at the other family’s unkempt, easy-going nature, and seeks to not only keep the son he has raised, but also buy off the other parents to give up legal ownership of his true, biological son.

Inspired by the director’s own recent experience with fatherhood, Like Father, Like Son was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. The darker implications of the film are tempered by tender interactions with the children, and the deep empathy that slowly emerges in this exploration of nature versus nurture and the true meaning of parenthood.