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Pastoral: To Die in the Country

1974 · 101 min

A hypnotic, dreamlike plunge into memory and identity, where reality and fiction blur in a surreal, unsettling collage.

Overview
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • identity
  • isolation
  • family
  • art
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror4
Humour3
Realism3
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity9
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
fantasy, drama
Directed by
Shūji Terayama
Written by
Shūji Terayama
Starring
Kantarō Suga, Hiroyuki Takano, Chigusa Takayama, Kaoru Yachigusa, Keiko Niitaka, Masumi Harukawa, Izumi Hara, Yoshio Harada
Music
J.A. Seazer
Cinematography
Tatsuo Suzuki
Runtime
101 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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