The Boys Wanted to See Fireworks from the Side (1999)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : Shunji Iwai
Synopsis
A documentary looking back on the making of Shunji Iwai's TV play Fireworks, Should We See it from the Side or the Bottom?.
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