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Bookmark this pageHeart, Beating in the Dark (1982)
Director: Shunichi Nagasaki
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From Time Out Film Guide
A boy and a girl in a room, seemingly on the run from something. Are they in love? They fuck compulsively, and their sex has a disturbing edge of sado-masochism. They enact 'flashbacks' to their pasts, but it's the girl who speaks the boy's aggressive, 'macho' lines and vice versa. What brought them there is finally revealed in a terrifying monologue. It often plays like a 'wrong side of the tracks' answer to Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses: a love story which is brutal, messy, hopeless and finally horrifying, but a love story none the less. (Shot on Super-8, transferred to video.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Shunichi Nagasaki
Cast: Shigeru Muroi, Takeshi Naito, Taro Suwa, Tesuji Onda full cast
Duration: 75 mins
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