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The Rocking Horsemen

1992 · 135 min

A warm, gently comic nostalgia trip through small-town adolescence, full of earnest band practice and the bittersweet thrill of first discovering music.

Directed by: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Yasufumi Hayashi, Tadanobu Asano, Yoshiyuki Omori

Tagline: My dearest songs, please protect me!
Overview: It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.

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Directed by: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Yasufumi Hayashi, Tadanobu Asano, Yoshiyuki Omori

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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: coming-of-age
friendship
music
identity
memory
Places: small town
school
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	6
Realism	7
Romance	3
Tension	2
Darkness	2
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Written by: Fumio Ishimori
Starring: Yasufumi Hayashi, Tadanobu Asano, Yoshiyuki Omori, Tsumatoshi Nagahori, Shinichiroh Satoh, Ittoku Kishibe, Bengal, Kaori Mizushima
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Cinematography: Kenji Hagiwara
Runtime: 135 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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