Born In Summer

Jan 1, 1998

1h 15m

★ 0.0

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.

Genres

Drama

Documentary

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Cast

Kenji Murakami

Yukiyasu Shimada

Rie Uematsu

Shinobu Kuribayashi

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