CinemaOSMovie · 1998 · 1h 16m

TEL-CLUB

DramaDocumentary

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.

Directed byKenji Murakami

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 16m
Language
JA
Released
January 1, 1998

Featuring

Cast & crew

4 credited
Starring

Kenji Murakami

Yukiyasu Shimada

Yukiyasu Shimada

Rie Uematsu

Shinobu Kuribayashi

Creative team
Directed by
Kenji Murakami
Written by
Kenji Murakami
Produced by
Kenji Murakami

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