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Pieta in the Toilet

2015 · 120 min

A quiet, bittersweet summer story that lingers on mortality and connection with gentle melancholy.

Directed by
Daishi Matsunaga
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Yojiro Noda, Hana Sugisaki, Lily Franky
Overview
Hiroshi has given up on his dreams of becoming a painter and works part-time cleaning office windows. He learns that he has only 3 months left to live. During his last summer, high school student Mai appears. Hiroshi becomes attracted to her.

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Directed by
Daishi Matsunaga
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Yojiro Noda, Hana Sugisaki, Lily Franky
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • death
  • love
  • identity
  • isolation
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
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
Romance5
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
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Music
Masamichi Shigeno
Runtime
120 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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