Lonely Heart (1981)

Original title

幸福

Directed by

Kon Ichikawa

Genre

mystery film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 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 police procedural about detectives investigating a murder at a bookstore. The film follows the personal lives of the cops while they work to solve the case.

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What happens

Lonely Heart (Japanese: 幸福, Hepburn: Kōfuku) is a 1981 Japanese mystery film directed by Kon Ichikawa, based upon the 1961 American novel Lady, Lady I Did It in Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series. The film stars Yutaka Mizutani, Toshiyuki Nagashima and Rie Nakahara in a police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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