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Bookmark this pageVillage of Dreams (1996)
Director: Yoichi Higashi
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Co-scripted by Takehiro Nakajima, the director of Okoge, this magic-realist evocation of a rural childhood is chiefly interesting for its undercurrent of homosexual panic: twin boys are warned that the thunder god will steal their penises if they go naked and imagine being smothered by their gruff landlord's animated fundoshi loincloth. Elsewhere, the film rehearses the standard Freudian reading of the approach to puberty: ground already well-covered by Hou Xiaoxian in A Summer at Grandpa's. Amusing and skilfully executed, but nothing new.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Yoichi Higashi
Producer: Tetsujiro Yamagami
Cast: Keigo Matsuyama, Shogo Matsuyama, Mieko Harada, Kyozo Nagatsuka full cast
Duration: 112 mins
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