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Moving

1993 · 124 min

A slow, dreamlike immersion into a child's bewildered grief, blending everyday family chaos with moments of haunting, lyrical beauty.

Directed by
Shinji Sōmai
Genres
Drama
Overview
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

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Directed by
Shinji Sōmai
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • coming-of-age
  • grief
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • small town
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Shinji Sōmai
Written by
Satoko Okudera, Satoshi Okonogi
Starring
Tomoko Tabata, Junko Sakurada, Kiichi Nakai, Tsurube Shofukutei, Mariko Sudo, Shinobu Chihara, Taro Tanaka, Ippei Shigeyama
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
124 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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