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Moonlight Serenade

1997 · 117 min

A quiet, reflective journey through grief and memory, moving slowly between past and present with a somber, contemplative weight.

Overview
A journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake recalls a boat trip he took as a boy after WWII to bury his brother's ashes, during which his family grapples with life in occupied Japan.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • grief
    • family
    • memory
    • war
    • trauma
    Places
    • sea
    • countryside
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror0
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance1
    Tension3
    Darkness6
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight8

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, adventure, history
    Directed by
    Masahiro Shinoda
    Written by
    Katsuo Naruse
    Starring
    Kyōzō Nagatsuka, Hideyuki Kasahara, Jun Toba, Shima Iwashita, Hinano Yoshikawa, Michiko Hada, Junji Takada, Toshiya Nagasawa
    Music
    Shinichiro Ikebe
    Cinematography
    Tatsuo Suzuki
    Runtime
    117 min
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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