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It's a Flickering Life

2021 · 125 min

A gentle, nostalgic look back at a life spent loving cinema, warm and bittersweet, with quiet emotional pull.

Directed by: Yoji Yamada
Genres: Drama
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Masaki Suda, Mei Nagano

Overview: The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous actors. In this tale of love and friendship spanning a lifetime, the "god of cinema" that Go has worshipped since he was young will transcend time, and work a miracle in the lives of one family.

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Directed by: Yoji Yamada
Genres: Drama
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Masaki Suda, Mei Nagano

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
love
family
art
aging
Places: small town
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	7
Romance	5
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Yoji Yamada
Written by: Yoji Yamada, Yuzo Asahara
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Masaki Suda, Mei Nagano, Yojiro Noda, Keiko Kitagawa, Shinobu Terajima, Nenji Kobayashi, Nobuko Miyamoto
Music: Taro Iwashiro
Cinematography: Masashi Chikamori
Runtime: 125 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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