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USA/ Japan, 2003, 101 mins
International Sales:
Focus Features
Focus Features
c/o NBCUniversal, 30 Rockefeller Plaza
Building 5TS – 10th Floor
New York, NY 10112
web: www.focusfeatures.com
Motivation:
“For the cool detachment and freshness with which she observes the antics of various American and Japanese television and communication industry people in the anonymous surroundings of a large Japanese city, and for the sensitivity with which she modulates the atmosphere of the film from comedy to melancholy.”