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TEL-CLUB

1998-01-01 · 76 min · Not rated

Drama · Documentary

In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is still to be born. With time on his hands and no one to talk to, the filmmaker finds the phone number for a telephone date club, and calls up with an earnest de- sire: I'd like to talk to a girl. While following the conventions of film-diary form, at some point the filmmaker falls into a times pace tunnel of false memory.

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Directors
Kenji Murakami
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Japan
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Kenji Murakami
Yukiyasu ShimadaYukiyasu Shimada
Rie Uematsu
Shinobu Kuribayashi

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