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6.8/10   1,384 votes
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Writer:
Shinya Tsukamoto (writer)
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Release Date:
11 December 2004 (Japan) more
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Plot:
After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
4 wins & 1 nomination more
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odd contemplation of life and death more (21 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Tadanobu Asano ... Hiroshi Takagi
Nami Tsukamoto ... Ryôko Ooyama
Kiki ... Ikumi
Kazuyoshi Kushida ... Hiroshi's father
Lily ... Hiroshi's mother
Hana Kino ... Mrs. Ooyama, Ryôko's mother
Gô Rijû ... Dr. Nakai
Jun Kunimura ... Mr. Ooyama, Ryôko's father
Ittoku Kishibe ... Dr. Kashiwabuchi
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Masato Tsujioka
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Directed by
Shinya Tsukamoto 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Shinya Tsukamoto  writer

Produced by
Kiyo Joo .... producer
Shin-Ichi Kawahara .... producer
Ittoku Kishibe .... producer
Keiko Kusakabe .... producer
Koichi Kusakabe .... producer
Shinya Tsukamoto .... producer
 
Original Music by
Chu Ishikawa 
 
Cinematography by
Shinya Tsukamoto 
 
Film Editing by
Shinya Tsukamoto 
 
Production Design by
Shinya Tsukamoto 
 
Makeup Department
Takashi Oda .... special makeup effects artist
 
Sound Department
Masaya Kitada .... sound
 
Music Department
Cocco .... composer: song "Blue Bird"
 

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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for some aberrant sexual behavior, disturbing images and brief language.
Runtime:
86 min
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1 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
odd contemplation of life and death, 11 August 2008
6/10
Author: Charles Herold (cherold) from United States

I think whoever listed this as a "thriller" was going by the plot description rather than the actual film, in which an amnesiac medical student spends several months dissecting his ex-girlfriend at the University. The student is taciturn, is followed around by another, infatuated medical student, and because to have memories of his ex. And that's pretty much the movie. It is deliberately paced and at times purposely opaque.

The director has at times a film students fondness for meaningless composition, notably in an early scene in which the students parents stand perfectly still and converse. This sort of statues-holding-deadpan-conversations work well in Hal Hartley movies, but they feel a bit pretentious without Hartley's humor. The opening jittery camera-work also seems like something a film student would do. This sort of thing put me off, but the movie did generally keep my interest, becoming slightly more involving and less pretentious as it progressed, and in the end I feel okay about sitting through it, although I can't say I'd give it a strong recommendation.

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