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The Tender Throbbing Twilight
(Tasogare / Ikutsu ni natte mo yaritai otoko to onna)
by Shinji IMAOKA

Funakichi is well over sixty, but still horny and getting into trouble. At a class reunion he meets his first love again, and now things get serious … This film will touch your heart and blow your mind with its roller coaster of emotions and absurdities.

Credits:
Japan 2007, 35mm, 64 min, Japanese with English subtitles
Director: Shinji IMAOKA
Writer: Akira TANIGUCHI
Production: Kokuei, Shintoho, V-Aradise
Director of photography: Issaku MAEI
Music: Bito
German distribution: Rapid Eye Movies
Cast: Masaru TAGA, Yasuko NAMIKIBASHI, Kyoko HAYAMI, Kenji YOSHIOKA

About the director: Shinji IAMOKA is one of the «7 Lucky Gods» of Pink Film, a generation of young directors that have turned genre conventions upside down.

Filmography (selection): 1999 Despite All That (Gushonure hitozuma kyoshi - seifuke de daite); 2004 Lunch Box (Tamamono / NC 04); 2006 Uncle′s Paradise (Ojisan tengoku / NC 07); 2009 Kemono no majimwari: Tenshi to yaru / Daydream (Hakujitsumu)

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Saturday, April 17, 10 p.m. Cinema Mal Seh'n

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