Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Pekin no suika AKA Beijing Watermelon (1989)

Shunzo (Bengal) and his wife Michi (Masako Motai) run a beloved greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo. When Lee, a struggling exchange student from China, visits the shop but is unable to afford the produce, an uneasy relationship sprouts. Begrudgingly, Shunzo agrees to lower his prices. Soon, Lee’s classmates begin frequenting the shop. As Shunzo’s generosity sneaks up on him and strains his family’s welfare, he confronts his role as surrogate father to his newfound Chinese friends.

Shot between May – July of 1989 and addressing the historically charged notion of a Sino-Japanese friendship, this lesser-seen masterpiece from director Nobuhiko Obayashi (House) chronicles the end of a decade marked by the Japanese economic bubble and the brutal close of possibility in China. A delicate elegy to the Chinese students of its time, Beijing Watermelon finds Obayashi at his most modern, channeling the style of Yasujiro Ozu, while his experimental flourishes provide the perfect disruption, inviting viewers to fill in the blanks of history.

Beijing.Watermelon.1989.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 15 min
Size: 	3.14 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	956x576 
Aspect ratio:  	5:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.227
Audio
#1:  	Japanese 1.0ch FLAC @ 307 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/E4611ABE9C9D164/Beijing.Watermelon.1989.BDRIP.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English