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The Color of Pomegranates
Why this pick
Its ritualised tableaux, symbolic objects, and near-wordless visual poetry share Terayama’s rejection of ordinary realism for memory and myth.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1974 1h 44m JPN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kaoru Yachigusa
Yoshio Harada
Arashi