Farewell to the Ark (1984)

Original title

さらば箱舟

Directed by

Shūji Terayama

Genre

fantasy film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 07m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a remote isolated village, a mysterious carpenter arrives and the town begins to lose their memory. The film follows the intertwined lives of the villagers as strange events unfold over many years.

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What happens

Farewell to the Ark (Japanese: さらば箱舟, Hepburn: Saraba hakobune) is a 1984 Japanese mystery film directed by Shūji Terayama, loosely based on the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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