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The Catch

Gyoei no mure

Japan

1983

140 Min
Color
Japanese
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DIR Shinji Sômai

PROD Shuji Miyajima, Kanji Nakagawa, Akira Oda

SCR Yôzô Tanaka, Akira Yoshimura

DP Mutsuo Naganuma

CAST Ken Ogata, Masako Natsume, Koichi Sato, Yukiyo Toake, Saburô Ishikura, Eiichi Kudo, Leonard Kuma, Enraku Sanyutei

ED Sachiko Yamaji

MUSIC Saegusa Shigeaki

Edinburgh (Retrospective: Shinji Somai)

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A rugged drama of initiation set in an isolated part of northeastern Japan. A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the older man to teach him the secrets of his dangerous trade. –Edinburgh International Film Festival

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Shinji Sômai

Shinji Sōmai (相米 慎二, Sōmai Shinji?, 13 January 1948 – 9 September 2001) was a Japanese film director. He directed 13 films between 1980 and 2000. His film Ohikkoshi was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. —wikipedia 

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The Forgotten: Grave of the Fireflies

By David Cairns on June 28, 2012

Three kids stake out an old man’s house to see if he’ll die, in Shinji Sômai’s magical coming-of-age drama.

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