Farewell to the Summer Light (1968)

Original title

さらば夏の光

Directed by

Yoshishige Yoshida

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 36m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 17 voters

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 Japanese couple traveling through Europe have a romance while dealing with painful memories of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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What happens

Farewell to the Summer Light (Japanese: さらば夏の光, Hepburn: Saraba natsu no hikari) is a 1968 Japanese New Wave romantic drama film co-written and directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. Its story follows two Japanese people on a tour of Europe who become romantically entangled while dealing with mutual trauma over the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The film stars Mariko Okada and Tadashi Yokouchi in the lead roles, in addition to Paul Beauvais and Hélène Soubielle. Its score was composed by Toshi Ichiyanagi. Farewell to the Summer Light was theatrically released by Art Theatre Guild on 31 December 1968, in Japan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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