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I first saw this film at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 1981 and have often looked for it since without any luck. Of the 50 films I saw in those 16 days including masterpieces by Angelopoulos and Syberbergs Hitler A Film From Germany Yamadas simple story turned out to be my favorite. When it recently turned up in a 5-disk Yoji Yamada box set I immediately ordered it. Well...

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Kaoru Matsumoto Kana is just a normal girl living with her annoying brother Taniyama Takeru harried mom Suzuki Sawa Loft and languid dad Furuta Arata Hana until one day her mom just ups and leaves. Soon after her dads new girlfriend Yoko Takeuchi Yuko comes strolling in. Kaoru isnt sure what to make of Yoko who is brash forward good-humored and at times downright uncouth. As...

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Sang-hyeon Cha In-Pyo is a third-rate comedian who works in a shady nightclub. One day a man comes into the club with his son and a briefcase. The man looks for the owner but hes not around. Later that evening Sang-hyeon witnesses a car accident involving the man that came into the nightclub. The man is dying and he asks Sang-hyeon to take his son and briefcase to his wife. Sang-hyeon goes to...

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Tokio Shinya Tsukamoto is a young salaryman who is uncomfortably confronted with his own ineptness when he finds his wife Kumiko drowned in the bathtub one night. He picks up the phone to call an ambulance but puts it down again before dialling the number. Instead he distractedly makes himself coffee before deciding to drain the bath and bring Kumiko to the living room couch. With her dead...