TEL-CLUB
1998•1h 16m•Released
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.
Director
Kenji Murakami
Writer
Kenji Murakami
Languages
Japanese
Cast
Kenji Murakami
Yukiyasu Shimada
Rie Uematsu
Shinobu Kuribayashi
Production
Producer
Kenji Murakami
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