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BBFC RatingJapan Foundation: After School

CertificateNot Rated
Year2008
Director(s)Kenji Uchida
LanguageJapanese
CountryJapan
Running Time1HR 42MINS
Extra InfoSubtitled
SeasonThe Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024

Middle school teacher Jinno joins forces with a seedy private detective (Kuranosuke Sasaki) to find his friend Kimura (Masato Sakai), who disappears on the eve of his child’s birth. Known for his powerful plot twists; this atypical early work by Kenji Uchida is a hidden gem filled with puzzles and surprises.

With diverse cinematic voices, The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2018 features some of the best examples of cinema from Japan and will look at how the country’s filmmakers have been drawn to portraying the “(un)true” colours of human nature. The twists and turns of life portrayed in the programme are at times heart-rending, at other times hilarious, but always enthralling.


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