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Jun-Ai (true love) (2007)

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Directed by
Keiko Kobayashi

How it feels

In 1945, after Japan surrenders, Japanese settlers in China face hostility from villagers who lost family to the military. Two settlers are sheltered by a Chinese man and his elderly mother, leading to a friendship and love that defies national borders.

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