Tagged: mood: melancholic

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Candy Rain

Candy Rain is a collection of short pieces that revolve around a group of Taiwanese women who happened to be attracted to women. Neither of the stories deal specifically with the coming out process, important times in our lifespan, or deals with social order.

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Love in a Puff

Love in a Puff is a romantic tale about a guy at a marketing company named Jimmy who meets a cosmetic sales girl from a nearby mall named Cherie, while they’re taking a smoke-break.

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Other Woman, The

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits tells the story of Emilia, Jack’s wife and stepmother to his son William, from Jack’s previous marriage to Carolyne. Yes, Emilia is “the other woman” who’s recently lost a child.

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Kingyo

A woman is working the streets of Akihabara looking for a gig as a “Maid Tour” guide, as her phone rings and meets up with a man, whom she used to know.

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Submarine (2011)

Submarine’s set in the same era lampooned in Darkplace, that of the 80s, complete with mullets and VHS throwbacks. But the comedy here is of a gentle, wry nature, unconcerned with mockery, and really the film could be set anywhere between the 1960s and now thanks to its wonderfully timeless feel.

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Blue (Japanese Film)

Based on the manga by Kiriko Nananan, Blue follows quiet Kirishima, a high school girl that spends most her time admiring what’s around her rather than interacting with it. One day Kirishima strikes up a friendship with Endo, a girl with a mysterious past, and begins admiring her.

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HaHaHa

Sang-soo Hong’s HaHaHa follows the story of Moon-Kyeong, a filmmaker who’s going to Canada, and Jong-Sik, a movie critic — two long-time friends who meet and tell each other about their lives over good food and drinks.

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Last Train Home

The Last Train Home is a documentary that follows the Zhang family during the most tumultuous time of the year in China, Chinese New Year week, where train stations are packed with people from all over the country trying to get back home.

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Women Play Twice

Onna-tachi wa Nido Asobu, or Women Play Twice, is the film cut from the BeeTV Mobile drama about five different women entwined by a writer with little imagination.