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One Last Bloom

2023 · 133 min

A quiet, heartfelt drama that builds slowly toward an emotionally satisfying, crowd-pleasing finish.

Directed by: Takahisa Zeze
Genres: Drama
Starring: Koichi Sato, Ryusei Yokohama, Kanna Hashimoto

Overview: Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the two men decide to seize their final chance at glory. A boxing film so authentic that it inspired co-star Yokohama Ryusei to qualify as a pro boxer, Zeze Takahisa’s boxing drama is one of the veteran director’s most crowd-pleasing films thanks to the touching father-son bond at its core.

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Directed by: Takahisa Zeze
Genres: Drama
Starring: Koichi Sato, Ryusei Yokohama, Kanna Hashimoto

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: redemption
grief
found family
ambition
aging
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	4
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Takahisa Zeze
Written by: Wataru Hoshi, Takahisa Zeze
Starring: Koichi Sato, Ryusei Yokohama, Kanna Hashimoto, Masataka Kubota, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Show Aikawa, Tsurutaro Kataoka, Ryota Bando
Music: Takuto Tanaka
Cinematography: Kohei Kato
Runtime: 133 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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