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The Girl Who Picks Flowers and the Girl Who Kills Insects

2000 · 236 min

A long, quiet, uneasy watch where a friendship slowly curdles into something you can't quite trust.

Directed by: Hitoshi Yazaki
Genres: Drama
Starring: Nicole Marlene, Miwa Kawagoe, Yoshitaka Ôta

Overview: Two girls, one from Germany, the other from Japan meet and become friends in London, but soon discover things aren't what they seem.

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Directed by: Hitoshi Yazaki
Genres: Drama
Starring: Nicole Marlene, Miwa Kawagoe, Yoshitaka Ôta

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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: friendship
identity
deception
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	2
Realism	6
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Hitoshi Yazaki
Written by: Tanya Grassley, Hitoshi Yazaki, Tetsuko Yorozu
Starring: Nicole Marlene, Miwa Kawagoe, Yoshitaka Ôta, Simon Fisher-Turner, Christopher Jenner Cole, Mark Gilvary
Music: Adolphe Adam, Simon Fisher-Turner
Cinematography: Peter Morris
Runtime: 236 min
Country: Japan, United Kingdom
Languages: English

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