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Movie box-ing (2004)

Directed by Yoshihiro Fukagawa, Reiko Saito, Gisho

Overview

“Movie Box-ing” is a Japanese film from 2003. It is an omnibus-style film consisting of three short stories: “Run-ing”, “The Spinning Boy” and “The Policeman and the Summer Clothes”  “Run-ing”: Four men and women, each with their own unique circumstances and backgrounds, find themselves running after hearing the gunshot of an assassin targeting a man who stole a bag from an organization. The story follows what happens when they reach the finish line.  “The Spinning Boy”: Yoshio loves to spin around. Despite a class goal to make him stop spinning, he continues. One day, his father gets injured, and Yoshio declares, “I won’t spin anymore.”  “The Policeman and the Summer Clothes”: On the eve of a summer festival, Shingo, a policeman in a small coastal town, is involved in a case. While his girlfriend, Chizuru, is job hunting in Tokyo, Shingo questions Mariko, a university entrance exam candidate, about breaking a shop window.

Length 67 minutes

Actors

Koyomi Amata | Akiko Fukuda | Mizuho Hamano | Natsuki Harada | Yasuhito Hida | Yutaka Hiramatsu | YĆ» Horimizu | Hirotaka Ohkuma | Okada Megumi | Mayumi Satoi | Tsugumi | Yukinobu Yamada | Kouichi Yamadera