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日本語
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From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully hand-drawn animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and kinetic humor with deeply felt emotion and drama. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight - and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words "Dear Momo," but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 331
Language
日本語
Description
The story of a widower and his daughter who through devotion to him is getting past a marriageable age. The father pretends to marry a young wife so his daughter will feel less obligated to stay with him. She marries and he prepares to live the remainder of his life alone.
6) Premonition
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日本語
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A father tries to prevent the death of his young daughter, which he saw foretold in a mysterious newspaper a few moments before it was to have happened.
Series
Criterion collection volume 446
Language
日本語
Description
After living alone with his daughter for years, a widower must learn how to let her go, letting her be free to move on with her life, by arranging a marriage for her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 331
Language
日本語
Description
Banshun: a widowed father forces his adult daughter to begin her own life by fooling her into believing he will remarry.
Tokyo-ga: film diary of Wenders' journey to Tokyo to discover the city he came to know through the films of Yasujiro Ozu.
12) Higanbana
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Language
日本語
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In Ozu's first color film, a stubborn businessman, who disapproves of his daughter's fiance, must learn to embrace modern romance.
Series
Criterion collection volume 446
Language
日本語
Description
A gently heartbreaking story about a man's dignifed resignation to life's shifting currents and society's modernization. Though widower Shuhei has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure from their home.
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