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Now showing — Dodes'ka-den · 5 works
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Two underachieving cops go undercover at a high school and discover the social order has flipped. A self-aware buddy comedy that shouldn't work but does.
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Second-year high school student Yatora Yaguchi is a delinquent with excellent grades, but is unmotivated to find his true calling in life. Yatora spends his days working hard to maintain his academic standing while hanging out with his equally unambitious friends. However, beneath his carefree demeanor, Yatora does...
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Dodes'ka-den is a 1970 film from Japan, associated with Akira Kurosawa. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears is a 1980 film from Soviet Union, associated with Vladimir Menshov. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Born from a cocoon in the village of Old Home, a young Haibane—a being with a halo and small gray wings—awakens to a world she does not understand without memories of her past. Named Rakka for the dream of falling she had while inside the cocoon, she soon becomes accustomed to life in the strange town. However, ther...
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