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Pale Moon

2014 · 124 min

A quiet, mounting spiral of bad decisions that pulls you along with uneasy fascination, never quite letting you look away.

Directed by
Daihachi Yoshida
Genres
Crime, Drama
Starring
Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Seiichi Tanabe
Tagline
To make your dreams come true, sometimes you have to break the rules.
Overview
Wakaba Bank contract employee Rika meets university student Kota at a client's home. Unknown to her husband Masafumi, she engages in secret rendezvous with Kota, and begins to embezzle money from her clients' accounts to buy expensive cosmetics and pay off Kota's debt.

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Directed by
Daihachi Yoshida
Genres
Crime, Drama
Starring
Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Seiichi Tanabe
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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • obsession
  • crime
  • guilt
  • love
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance4
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
crime, drama
Directed by
Daihachi Yoshida
Written by
Kaeko Hayafune
Starring
Rie Miyazawa, Sosuke Ikematsu, Seiichi Tanabe, Satomi Kobayashi, Yoshimasa Kondo, Renji Ishibashi, Yuko Oshima, Yuna Taira
Cinematography
Makoto Sigma
Runtime
124 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese, Khmer

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