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Directed by Sho Miyake | 113 mins | 2012
With a perceptiveness beyond his years, Miyake moved from the adolescent unquiet of his feature debut, "Good for Nothing" (2010), to the unquiet of looming middle-age in his follow up. Soon to be divorced and almost 40, Haji (Jun Murakami), an actor, takes up an invitation to visit his hometown. An injury incurred on the journey pushes the story into unexpected territory: Haji wakes up in his high school uniform, apparently transported back in time.
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