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Control Tower (2011)

Control Tower poster
Original title
管制塔
Directed by
Takahiro Miki
Genre
teen film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 08m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two teenagers meet in a small northern Japanese city. Their connection grows over a shared love of music.

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What happens

Kanseitou (管制塔) è un film del 2011 diretto da Takahiro Miki. La pellicola trae spunto dalla canzone omonima del gruppo rock giapponese Galileo Galilei, ed è girata e ambientata nella città in cui questi sono cresciuti, Wakkanai, Hokkaidō. Il film, che narra il tenero incontro tra due adolescenti, internazionalmente è noto anche come Control Tower, dal titolo orgiinale che significa appunto "torre di controllo". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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