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Heart, Beating in the Dark (2005)

Director: Shunichi Nagasaki

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From Time Out London

Over two decades ago, Nagasaki made ‘Heart, Beating in the Dark’, a scurrilous, shocking, subversive Super 8 movie about a young couple on the run. Now, offered the chance to remake it, he avoids mere reiteration and has the now middle-aged actors from the first film not only meeting up with each other again for the first time in ages, but also meeting another young couple on the run - and trying to influence their lives so that they don’t make the same mistakes as the characters they once played. A complex, multi-layered meditation on life and art, society and behaviour, age and audacity; profoundly ambitious and highly rewarding. 

Author: Geoff Andrew

Time Out London Issue 1888: October 25-November 1


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Director: Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast: Shigeru Muroi, Takashi Naito, Shoichi Honda, Niriko Eguchi full cast

Genre(s): Drama

Duration: 104 mins



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