Jun Ichikawa's Haruki Murakami adap is exquisite, but elusive. A small, perfectly formed tale of loneliness and addiction, it succeeds in matching the way the action in Murakami's prose takes place between the lines. The film's essentially a two-hander, with the leads doubling up in four roles. Issei Ogata plays a widower and his lonely son. The former, a trombonist, obsesses over music, while the latter falls for Miyazawa Rie, who turns out to be alarmingly fixated on clothes...
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