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Off Highway 20

2007 · 77 min

A bleak, slow-burn character study of addiction and debt, immersive and quietly devastating.

Directed by
Katsuya Tomita
Genres
Drama
Starring
Hitoshi Ito, Tsuyoshi Takano, Rimi
Tagline
Can I really go?
Overview
Hisashi was once a member of a motorcycle gang. Now he plays pachinko everyday with his live-in girlfriend, Junko. He has a habit of "huffing" paint thinner. His debts accumulate every day. Hisashi's old friend from the gang, Ozawa is a loan shark. He persuades Hisashi to join his easy-money-making.

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Directed by
Katsuya Tomita
Genres
Drama
Starring
Hitoshi Ito, Tsuyoshi Takano, Rimi
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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • addiction
  • isolation
  • crime
  • greed
  • survival
Places
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
Katsuya Tomita
Written by
Toranosuke Aizawa, Katsuya Tomita
Starring
Hitoshi Ito, Tsuyoshi Takano, Rimi, Masahiko Nishimura, Shinji Murata, Kazusa Nishimoto, Eriko Hirasawa, Ayako Kimura
Runtime
77 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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