The Lovers' Exile (1980)
- Directed by
- Marty Gross
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- Canada, Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
The film adapts a classic Japanese play about a doomed love affair. A courier and a courtesan try to escape their society's rigid rules.
slow-burnmelancholicformaltragicpoeticstylizedperiodrestrained
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