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Pastoral: To Die in the Country
JAPAN · 1974

Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Shuji Terayama
creative block rural nostalgia adolescent memory artistic struggle Japanese countryside
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Synopsis

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

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