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The Longest Tunnel

1982 · 142 min

A slow, serious drama about a man's grand engineering dream and the personal cost, with a somber, earnest tone.

Overview
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife.

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Tone
  • earneststrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • ambition
  • survival
  • betrayal
  • love
  • family
Places
  • sea
  • workplace
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Shirō Moritani
Written by
Shirō Moritani, Toshiro Ide
Starring
Ken Takakura, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tomokazu Miura, Naoko Ohtani, Hiroko Isayama, Kyoko Aoki, Susumu Fujita, Masakazu Kuwayama
Cinematography
Daisaku Kimura
Runtime
142 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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