A Town of Love and Hope
Cruel Story of Youth
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1h 2m
Directed by Nagisa Oshima • 1959 • Japan
Nagisa Oshima's first feature film, A TOWN OF LOVE AND HOPE paints a biting portrait of poverty and class difference through the life of a young boy who sells pigeons on the street. The radical and unflinching politics that would become Oshima's hallmark are here on display in his earliest work.
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Tomorrow's Sun
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