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Makuko (2019)

Makuko 2019
| 1h 48 min | Family, Sci-Fi | 15 March 2019 (Japan)

Storyline:

Satoshi is only in the fifth grade at elementary school. He is unhappy with his father, his perfidy and the company he keeps. Enter transfer student Kozue who is different and exciting. She is not just any different though. She truly is from far away and has a gift for Satsohi and the townspeople. The town grow close.

User review:

Amazing film include a scene in which a pubescent boy and his father compare their balls. It’s no more likely that a Steven Spielberg would ever produce the subtle riff on time, entropy, or the more ineffable mysteries of life seen here, in a Japanese film that otherwise is about an ET. In this case, she’s the very pretty daughter of a woman working for 11-year-old Satoshi’s mother, although Makuko makes no effort to conceal that she and “Mom” are both off-planet visitors, of a species that can never die, or change. Thus, young Satoshi’s existential trauma over aging, wet dreams, and the general frailty of the human condition becomes wonderfully confabulated with a first love who craves the experience of those very things. (Okay, maybe not the wet dreams.) This is a beautiful film: modest, warm, and unflashy in all ways, not counting its sometimes startling photography.

Director: Keiko Tsuruoka
Writers: Kanako Nishi (based on novel), Keiko Tsuruoka
Stars: Atsushi Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Jun Murakami
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Release Date: 15 March 2019 (Japan)
Also Known As: まく子

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt9529752/