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JAPAN · 2006

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Takashi Miike
Japanese New Wave lost love guilt and redemption prostitution cultural displacement body horror
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Synopsis

An American journalist travels through 19th-century Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with but instead learns of the physical and existential horror that befell her after he left.

Year2006
CountryJapan
DirectorTakashi Miike
MovementJapanese New Wave
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