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At Noon

1978 · 103 min

A quiet, unhurried look at small-town life and the pull between staying and leaving, drifting along with its characters.

Directed by
Kōichi Gotō
Genres
Drama
Starring
Kenichi Kaneda, Koji Tamura, Shinobu Yuki
Overview
Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing transistor and television. He catches up with his friend Tetsuji, the only that haven’t left yet. But one night, Tetsuji decides to leave for Tokyo with a bar hostess.

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Directed by
Kōichi Gotō
Genres
Drama
Starring
Kenichi Kaneda, Koji Tamura, Shinobu Yuki
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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • friendship
    • coming-of-age
    • family
    Places
    • countryside
    • small town
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism8
    Romance2
    Tension2
    Darkness4
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight6

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    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Kōichi Gotō
    Written by
    Hōsuke Fukuchi
    Starring
    Kenichi Kaneda, Koji Tamura, Shinobu Yuki, Satomi Tezuka, Ai Wakasugi, Toshiko Tsuyama, Gorō Tarumi, Moeko Ezawa
    Cinematography
    Kiyoshi Nishiura
    Runtime
    103 min
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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