The Shy Deceiver (1968)

Original title

吹けば飛ぶよな男だが

Directed by

Yōji Yamada

Genre

comedy

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 3 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

This is a small-scale 1968 Japanese film about a petty thug, a yakuza, and a runaway girl. It shows love among people living at the bottom of society.

melancholicwarmgroundedunderstatedtendergrittyhumanistic

What happens

『吹けば飛ぶよな男だが』（ふけばとぶよなおとこだが）は、1968年に松竹で制作、同年6月15日に公開された映画。チンピラ、ヤクザ、家出娘などのいわば社会の最下層に生きる人々の愛情を描いた作品。第42回キネマ旬報ベスト・テンの第10位にランクインした小品。 (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.