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Wilderness: Part 2

2017 · 147 min

A somber, slow, physically bruising watch that lingers on lonely young men trying to punch their way toward something like dignity.

Overview
Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a hopeless situation.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • survival
  • isolation
  • redemption
  • ambition
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Yoshiyuki Kishi
Written by
Yoshiyuki Kishi, Takehiko Minato
Starring
Masaki Suda, Yang Ik-june, Akari Kinoshita, Moro Morooka, Kazuya Takahashi, Anna Konno, Yuki Yamada, Aoba Kawai
Cinematography
Kôzô Natsumi
Runtime
147 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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