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Light of Africa

Light of Africa

6.0(2 votes)
1975
1h 40m
DramaComedy

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

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Production

Companies:
TOHO
Watanabe Kikaku

Languages

Original:ja
Spoken:
Japanese

Reviews

shinnosuketokuda

8/10

The movie is honestly pretty incoherent, coming from a fluent speaker of Japanese. But it's charming and Hagiwara and Tanaka give it their all. The soundtrack really sells it, too.

8/5/2020

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