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albeit for different reasons, to watch the film. A fourth individual, a young schoolgirl named Noriko, is also there to learn about cinema and the history of war. The action starts in earnest when the 13 year old Noriko falls into the Setouchi Kinema movie screen and becomes a part of the film's narrative. The three protagonists also jump into the screen, and find themselves a part of the fabric of the films they were there to watch, as they try to save people from the horrors of war.
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On the eve of closing down for the last time, a local cinema is hosting an all-night movie marathon, showing classic Japanese war films. Three men, Mario Baba (a film buff), Shigeru (a Buddhist monk turned Yakuza street-thug) and Hosuke (an intellectual film historian) have all come to the cinema,
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as "Nobuhiko Obayashi's opus", calling it "exuberantly shot" and "imaginatively edited". Mark Schilling of
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The film is largely composed of several interlinked eras in Japanese military history, beginning with the
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drop on Hiroshima. The protagonists find themselves in various scenarios within each war.
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wrote that the film "has characteristic blend of surreal whimsy and heartfelt emotion."
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moviegoers who find themselves transported back to 1945, just prior to the
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In 2016, Nobuhiko Obayashi was diagnosed with stage-four terminal
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Kanji
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Yoshihiko Hosoda
Riko Narumi
Hirona Yamazaki
Takako Tokiwa
Tokyo
Japanese
anti-war
fantasy
drama film
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Takuro Atsuki
ja
Takahito Hosoyamada
ja
Yoshihiko Hosoda
Onomichi
atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Riko Narumi
Hirona Yamazaki
Takako Tokiwa
Tokyo International Film Festival
Yukihiro Takahashi
Hiroshi Inuzuka
Yoshihiko Hosoda
Riko Narumi
Hirona Yamazaki
Takako Tokiwa

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