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Born In Summer
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DramaDocumentary
Overview
A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.
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Budget
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Runtime
75 min
Release Date
1998-01-01
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
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Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
Kenji Murakami
Yukiyasu Shimada
Rie Uematsu
Shinobu Kuribayashi
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