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Lonely Heart (1981)

Lonely Heart poster
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

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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