Blue Hour
Mar 28 2019
•2h 32m
•Drama, Comedy
Trapped in her anemic career and love relationship, a 30-year-old TV commercial director returns to her countryside home in the company of a free-spirited friend. In a bittersweet reunion with an alienated family, her childhood memories of freedom and yearnings creep in the dreamlike blue hour, transcending into a lyricism of self-realization – at once whimsical, agonizing and yet hopeful.
Cast
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Kaho
Yuka Sunada
Shim Eun-kyung
Asami Kiyoura
Kaho Minami
Sunada's Mother
Daichi Watanabe
Sunada's Husband
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