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Amagi Pass(Amagi goe)

  • Dir: Mimura Haruhiko

  • Japan, 1983, Japanese, 98mins, 35mm, Category III

  • Cast: Watase Tsunehiko, Tanaka Yuko, Kiki Kirin

After directing seven films based on Matsumoto Seicho crime stories, Nomura Yoshitaro became producer for this retelling of the writer’s work. First-time helmer Mimura Haruhiko turns a 1958 short story into slow-burn psychological drama, teasing out hidden motives behind a cold case. When a semi-retired cop visits a printshop with his memoirs, conversation turns to a rural murder he investigated 40 years earlier. What comes out is a tragic picture of longing and guilt within a saga sullied by miscarriage of justice. A richly evocative tale, with a murdered geisha emerging as a haunting central figure.

Kinema Junpo Top Ten: #8 and Award for Best Actress

8/12 (Sun): Film talk with Edith Chiu

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    In-theatre Screening

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    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

    The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
    The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.