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Bumpkin Soup

1985 · 83 min

A quirky, meandering campus comedy with deadpan humour and eccentric characters, offering a gently absurd and offbeat viewing experience.

Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genres
Music, Comedy
Starring
Yoriko Doguchi, Jūzō Itami, Kenso Kato
Overview
Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

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Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Genres
Music, Comedy
Starring
Yoriko Doguchi, Jūzō Itami, Kenso Kato
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Tone
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • isolation
  • love
  • coming-of-age
  • obsession
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour7
Realism6
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity6
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
music, comedy
Directed by
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Written by
Kunitoshi Manda, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring
Yoriko Doguchi, Jūzō Itami, Kenso Kato, Usagi Asō, Toru Miyabi, Yuichi Kishino, Hiroshi Katsuno, Yuki Sawano
Music
Yuri Mahira, Tokyo Towers
Cinematography
Toshihiko Uryu
Runtime
83 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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