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A woman as the main character, love and friendship, and one of the
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Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.
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A hard-boiled story about a young man who wakes up to the ferocity within himself, swaying between violence and love as he walks a devastating path.
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Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances.
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아빠, 엄마와 함께 행복하기만 한 렌코, 그러나 그 행복에 금이 가기 시작한다. 엄마와 아빠는 서로를 상처 주고 싸우며 결국 떨어져 살기로 결정한다. 전학생이 오면서 학교 생활도 예전 같지 않고 주변의 변화는 점점 벅차기만 하다. 익숙하고 친근했던 모든 것이 무너져 내리면서 어린 소녀의 세계도 조금씩 변해간다. 유명한 가수인 사쿠라다 준코가 엄마로, 아역 배우 타바타 토모코가 렌코로 출연했다. 소마이 신지 감독의 영화 중 가장 대중적이면서 가족적인 영화로 소녀의 감정과 성장을 통해 삶을 포착하고 있다. 초현실적인 이미지와 롱 테이크 속에 내러티브를 담아낸 소마이 신지 감독의 연출력이 돋보이는 수작이다. 1993 키네마 준보 여우주연상, 여우조연상 수상.
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At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
