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Living with My Mother / Nagasaki: Memories of My Son / Haha to kuraseba (2015)
Drama
Set in post-World War II Japan, midwife Nobuko is resolved to move on as she stands at the grave of her son Koji who died, alongside thousands of others, when the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on the civilians in the southern city of Nagasaki. However, upon returning home she is visited by an apparition. which continues to return in order to commiserate and reminisce with the woman about the past, family, affection and war.
Starring: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kazunari Ninomiya, Haru Kuroki
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Tags: Haru Kuroki, Kazunari Ninomiya, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yôji Yamada
Posted on June 25, 2016 |
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The Face of Jizo / Chichi to kuraseba (2004)
Drama
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
Starring: Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada, Tadanobu Asano
Director: Kazuo Kuroki
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Tags: Kazuo Kuroki, Rie Miyazawa, Tadanobu Asano, Yoshio Harada
Posted on June 25, 2016 |
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Les innocentes / Innocent (2016)
Drama
In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent.
Starring: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne, Joanna Kulig, Pascal Elso
Director: Anne Fontaine
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Tags: Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Anne Fontaine, Joanna Kulig, Lou de Laâge, Pascal Elso, Vincent Macaigne
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The Crossing Guard (1995)
Drama
Freddie Gale is a seedy jeweler who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston, Robin Wright, John Savage, Piper Laurie
Director: Sean Penn
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Tags: Anjelica Huston, David Morse, Jack Nicholson, John Savage, Piper Laurie, Robin Wright, Sean Penn
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The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Drama
A man suffering an incredible amount of loss enrolls in a class about care-giving that changes his perspective on life.
Starring: Selena Gomez, Paul Rudd, Bobby Cannavale, Jennifer Ehle, Craig Roberts, Frederick Weller
Director: Rob Burnett
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Tags: Bobby Cannavale, Craig Roberts, Frederick Weller, Jennifer Ehle, Paul Rudd, Rob Burnett, Selena Gomez
