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A Balasaur Score of 75 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 90%, Metacritic 80/100. Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 87% of the 3,246 2000s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes90%
Metacritic80/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
64 audience votes
Key crew
- Hou Hsiao-hsienDirector
- Hou Hsiao-hsienWriter
- Chu Tien-WenWriter
Cast
- Yo HitotoYoko Inoue
- Tadanobu AsanoHajime Takeuchi
- Masato HagiwaraSeiji
- Kimiko YoYoko's Stepmother
- Nenji KobayashiYoko's Father
- Yôko HoshiCast
- Keiichi AsadaCast
- Yukio EndôCast
- Mikiko KakizawaCast
- Hiroko KumadaCast
- Kikutarô MitobeCast
- Sumiko MitobeCast
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Themes
japanurban lifetraincafe