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Nana

2005 · 113 min

A warm, bittersweet story of two young women finding each other in the city, with music and heartbreak.

Overview
Two girls named Nana meet on a train to Tokyo. Nana K. aims to reunite with her boyfriend and Nana O. hopes to make it big in the music business. Despite their differences, the pair hit it off and become roommates.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • identity
  • love
  • ambition
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism7
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
romance, drama, music
Directed by
Kentaro Otani
Written by
Kentaro Otani
Starring
Mika Nakashima, Aoi Miyazaki, Kenichi Matsuyama, Ryuhei Matsuda, Tetsuji Tamayama, Tomomi Maruyama, Saeko, Yuna Ito
Cinematography
Kazuhiro Suzuki
Runtime
113 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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