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Paco and the Magical Book

Pako to Maho no Ehon

Japan

2008

105 Min
Color
Japanese
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DIR Tetsuya Nakashima

PROD Yutaka Suzuki

SCR Tetsuya Nakashima, Nobuhiro Monma, Hirohito Goto

DP Shoichi Ato, Atsushi Ozawa

CAST Kôji Yakusho, Ayaka Wilson, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Anna Tsuchiya, Kaera Kimura, Ryo Kase

ED Yoshiyuki Koike

MUSIC Gabriele Roberto

Synopsis

There once was a hospital where patients and even doctors & nurses were all weird. Above all, Onuki, a patient who built up his company all by himself from scratch, is a super cranky old man. One day, he meets up a girl called Paco, who cannot retain memory beyond one day due to a car accident. She is reading the same picture book everyday. Onuki starts bonding with Paco after some incident, and begins to doubt his way of living. He starts wanting to do something for Paco with his remaining life, and comes up with a brilliant idea. This pleases Paco, but their fate is… —AsianMediaWiki

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Tetsuya Nakashima

Tetsuya Nakashima (中島哲也) (born 1959) is a Japanese film director. He was born in Fukuoka, attending high school in Chikushino. Nakashima was given the Best Director award at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for his film Kamikaze Girls.

His 2010 film Confessions was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and made the final shortlist in January 2011. –Wikipedia 

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