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The Clone Returns Home

Kurôn wa kokyô wo mezasu

Japan

2008

110 Min
Color
Japanese
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DIR Kanji Nakajima

EXEC Wim Wenders

PROD Kiyoshi Inoue, Yoshiaki Tago, Rie Yamamoto

DP Hideho Urata

CAST Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Eri Ishida, Hiromi Nagasaku, Kyûsaku Shimada, Ryo Tsukamoto, Sho Tsukamoto

ED Ken Mimeta

MUSIC Yuta Yamashita

Sundance (World Cinema - Dramatic): Grand Jury Prize

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The Clone Returns Home is a compelling meditation on the paradox of life and death, and the meaning of love and family. Set in an imaginary – yet utterly imaginable – future, this quietly provocative film skillfully transposes complex emotional drama into the realm of science fiction by exploring the influence of technology on human memory and experience. Filled with stunning imagery and haunting stillness, The Clone Returns Home deftly combines subtly nuanced sci-fi with a uniquely Japanese perspective on the universal themes of family, life, love, and death. —IMDb

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Emery Snyder

29Apr11

This film reminds me of the time Japanese scientists cloned Andrei Tarkovsky and had him direct a sequel to Moon.

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NYAFF 09 Review: THE CLONE RETURNS HOME

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review.] As I popped in the screener for Children of the Dark, I thought, why am I doing this to myself? Why, out of over fifty films did I pick one……
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