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Key of Life
Why this pick
A deft Japanese crime-comedy built around chance, mistaken identity, and sharply contrasting personalities, with the same playful confidence and intricately timed escalation.
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MOVIE2006 1h 32m JPN
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Four strangers (a verbose romantic, a human lie detector, an expert pickpocket, and a woman with a preternaturally precise sense of time) are brought together by chance when they inadvertently team up to thwart a bank robbery. Recognizing the potential of their combined talents, they decide to form a bank-robbing gang themselves, just for the fun and romance of it. Their heists are played out swiftly and coolly, less like robberies than performance art. Eventually, the foursome's good-natured crime streak is interrupted when a man from one of their pasts creates a whirlwind of extortion and double-crossing.
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