Melancholic (2019)

Original title

メランコリック

Directed by

Seiji Tanaka

Genre

drama, crime, comedy

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 54m

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A university graduate takes a part-time job at a bathhouse. He finds out the bathhouse owner is a gangster who uses it to kill people and get rid of their bodies.

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What happens

Melancholic (Japanese: メランコリック) is a 2018 Japanese crime comedy-drama film directed by Seiji Tanaka, starring Yoji Minagawa, Yoshitomo Isozaki and Mebuki Yoshida. Tanaka's directorial debut, it follows a university graduate who begins working part-time at a bathhouse, only to discover that the building is owned by a gangster who uses it as a space for murder and body disposal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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