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Nonsensical Life
Nonsensical Life
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Nonsensical Life

Original Title: 下らない人生

1991
19m

Status

Released

Release

1991

Runtime

19m

Storyline

One summer day, a university student, Yazawa, is offered a lucrative job that pays 50,000 yen for two hours. All he had to do was go to a poet's house and listen to his poems. On the day of the job, the poet, Kihara, reads out a strange poem that starts with "The world is one" and ends with "Because we are 10 years old". Yazawa did as Kihara asked, reciting the poem and answering his questions. Yazawa reads the poem at Kihara's request and asks him a question: "Please give me a title. Kihara's ability to take something that would normally be "boring" and turn it into a surrealistic laugh is brilliant.

Score Distribution

Details

Status
Released
Runtime
19m
Jan 1, 1991
Languages
Japanese
Director
Masahito Kagawa
Production Countries
Japan

Top Cast

4 Cast Members

Masahiko Nakawa

Noriko Kikuchi

Kihara Minoru

Yazawa Tadashi

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