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Lover, Come Back to Me
JAPAN · 1983

Lover, Come Back to Me

Nobuhiko Obayashi
post-war reconciliation atomic bomb survivors Japanese-American identity scarred beauty lost family
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Synopsis

Ken Ota is a Japanese-American GI. He comes to Hiroshima after WW2 looking for his big sister, but finds Keiko, a bomb victim with a keloid scar on her shoulder.

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