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Begging for Love

1998 · 135 min

A quiet, painful excavation of buried family wounds that asks you to sit with discomfort and unresolved grief.

Overview
During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • trauma
  • family
  • grief
  • identity
Places
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
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
Horror2
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Hideyuki Hirayama
Written by
Wishing Chong
Starring
Mieko Harada, Maho Nonami, Kiichi Nakai, Fumiyo Kohinata, Mami Kumagai, Jun Kunimura, Naomi Nishida, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Music
Akira Senju
Cinematography
Kōzō Shibazaki
Runtime
135 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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