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Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki’s girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.Read More »
Ken'ichi Matsuyama
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Tran Anh Hung – Noruwei no mori AKA Norwegian Wood (2010)
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Nobuhiro Yamashita – Mai bakku pêji aka My Back Page (2011)
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Mai bakku pêji (2011)
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Based on Saburo Kawamoto’s autobiographical novel My Back Pages: Aru 60-nendai no Monogatari (A Story of Life in the 60s), the film is set during the student protests at Tokyo University. At the time, Kawamoto was working as a journalist covering the protests, which were in reaction to the Japanese government’s tolerance of US involvement in the Vietnam War and the use of Okinawa as a staging ground for that war.Read More »