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Timeless Melody

2000 · 95 min

A quiet, drifting hangout film that lets you linger in shabby rooms with idle characters until old grudges quietly unsettle the calm.

Overview
Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him and his friend Chikako. They seem contented to while away their hours doing nothing much at all. Meanwhile, an old pool shark meets some people from his past that he is none too happy to see again. How will this affect their private haven?

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 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
  • isolation
  • friendship
  • memory
  • betrayal
  • grief
Places
  • workplace
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour3
Realism7
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Hiroshi Okuhara
Written by
Hiroshi Okuhara
Starring
Mikako Ichikawa, Katsumi Kiba, Kimiko Yo, Manabu Hamada, Junpei Takemoto, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Takuji Aoyagi, Taro Kondo
Cinematography
Jun Fukumoto
Runtime
95 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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