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  A City of Sadness 1989

  Watched 15 Jan 2023

  ''a woman killed herself by flinging herself into a waterfall. She wasn't tired of life. She hadn't lost the will to live. She just couldn't face the loss of her youth. Once lost, nothing means anything. Why not imitate the cherry blossom... And fall when in the fullness of our beauty? Carried by the wind...''

  As the name calls it, it is a City of Sadness. Trauma, depression, despair, oppressive regimes. The ever-escalating pattern of abuse of power. Everyone is…

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  Pastoral: To Die in the Country 1974

  Watched 11 Sep 2022

  Have you ever looked carefully at the map of Japan?
  There is a small piece that looks like an ax. Another looks like a human head.
  I was born in the head... before the ax dealt the blow

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  Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets 1971

  Watched 10 Sep 2022 3

  Turn on the lights. The film ends here. Now it's my turn to speak, when you think about it... A film can only live in the dark. When the lights go up like that, the world of the film is blotted out.

  In this film I dreamed of the human aeroplane. After the shooting, when I got back to my room with all my moaning and groaning; I dreamed.. I dreamed of the human aeroplane. I wonder why. And bit…

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  NEKO-MIMI 1993

  Watched 09 Sep 2022

  There's something dripping in my head.
  A heart, a heart in my head.

  Do you hear him? A heart in his head!

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