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A Spoiling Rain

2023 · 137 min

A slow, melancholic immersion into creative obsession and quiet despair, where every scene lingers on unspoken longing and the weight of compromised dreams.

Overview
The story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an aspiring screenwriter, Iseki, and their loved one, Shoko, whose dream of a film she has clung to begins to crumble, and how their lives intersect.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 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
  • obsession
  • art
  • grief
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Haruhiko Arai
Written by
Futoshi Nakano, Haruhiko Arai
Starring
Go Ayano, Tasuku Emoto, Honami Sato, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Yohta Kawase, MINAMO, Makita Sports, Miyoko Akaza
Cinematography
Koichi Kawakami
Runtime
137 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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