The Heart (1973)

Original title

心

Directed by

Kaneto Shindō

Genre

drama

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 5 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 young man befriends an older, solitary scholar in Tokyo. Their connection reveals the scholar's buried guilt and regret over a past betrayal that shaped his life.

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What happens

The Heart (Japanese: 心, Hepburn: Kokoro), also titled Love Betrayed, is a 1973 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kaneto Shindō. It is based on the 1914 novel Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki. (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.