Glass Hearted Johnny (1962)

Original title

硝子のジョニー　野獣のように見えて

Directed by

Koreyoshi Kurahara

Genre

action

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 47m

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A young woman with an intellectual disability grows up in a poor fishing family and is sold by a trafficker. She escapes and boards a train to Hakodate, where a stranger named Joe helps her as her pursuer closes in.

melancholictensevisually starkslow-burnemotionally rawgrimresilientdreamlike

What happens

『硝子のジョニー 野獣のように見えて』（がらすのジョニー やじゅうのようにみえて）は、1962年9月30に公開された日活製作の映画、蔵原惟繕監督作品キネマ旬報1962年10月下旬号 p.88。 アイ・ジョージのヒット曲『硝子のジョニー』の映画化。 稚内で貧しい昆布採り漁師の家に生まれたみふねは知的障害を持つため、家業の手伝いさえもままならない。そんな理由で秋本というたまころがし（女性を風俗店へ斡旋すること）の男に売られてしまう。目的地へ連れられる途中、みふねは逃げ出すことに成功し、函館行きの列車に乗り込む。そこで見ず知らずのジョーという男に助けられるが、やがて秋本が逃げたみふねを追ってやってくる。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.