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Sad Vacation (2007)
Director: Shinji Aoyama
Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Eri Ishida, Aoi Miyazaki, Yuka Itaya
Runtime136 min
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Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigrant. Eventually his life reaches a turning point.
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Fans of intimate, character-driven dramas will appreciate the thoughtful, nuanced performances and the director Shinji Aoyama's naturalistic style in this 2007 film Sad Vacation, which follows the intersecting lives of a group of downtrodden individuals struggling to get by in Japan.
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Sad Vacation is a 2007 Japanese drama film written and directed by Shinji Aoyama, adapted from his novel. Being third and last of Aoyama's "Kitakyushu Saga", Sad Vacation brings together several characters from his previous films Helpless and Eureka and continues to explore their lives, all the while being a separate story that doesn't require watching previous films. It was named after the Johnny Thunders song.
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