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Kyûka

  • 20082008
  • 1h 55m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
168
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POPULARITY
265,954
81,982
Kyûka (2008)
Drama
The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.The prison guards working in penitentiaries where death row inmates are locked up are forced to spend their daily lives constantly facing death.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
168
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
265,954
81,982
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    • Director
      • Hajime Kadoi
    • Writers
      • Akira Yoshimura(novel)
      • Dai Sakô(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Kaoru Kobayashi
      • Hidetoshi Nishijima
      • Nene Ohtsuka
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    • Director
      • Hajime Kadoi
    • Writers
      • Akira Yoshimura(novel)
      • Dai Sakô(screenplay)
    • Stars
      • Kaoru Kobayashi
      • Hidetoshi Nishijima
      • Nene Ohtsuka
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    • 2User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations

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    Kaoru Kobayashi
    Kaoru Kobayashi
    • Toru Hirai
    Hidetoshi Nishijima
    Hidetoshi Nishijima
    • Shinichi Kaneda
    Nene Ohtsuka
    • Mika
    Ren Ôsugi
    Ren Ôsugi
    • Tatsuro Mishima
    Keiichi Asada
    Asami Imajuku
    • Kumi
    Taro Kanazawa
    Shûji Kashiwabara
    • Keita Otsuka
    Yuji Kato
    Lily
    • Misako
    Ren Murakami
    Gô Rijû
    • Daisuke Ikeuchi
    Hideo Sakaki
    Toshio Sakamoto
    Shun Sugata
    Shun Sugata
    • Fumio Sakamoto
    Shingo Takasugi
    Ryôko Takizawa
    • Masako Minami
    • (as Ryoko Takizawa)
    Hajime Tanimoto
    • Taizo Furuki
    • Director
      • Hajime Kadoi
    • Writers
      • Akira Yoshimura(novel)
      • Dai Sakô(screenplay)
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    9/10
    A prison guard seeks happiness and redemption from his duty on death row
    Faceless bureaucrats shuffle paperwork posing innumerable hanko stamps that mark the moment a life will be terminated. The life is that of illustrator Shinichi Kaneda. We don't and we won't know what crime he committed, and it does not matter. The eye of the camera compares him to a little ant crawling on the tatami, whose life is casually snatched away by a well-meaning hotel maid.

    From a novel by Akira Yoshimura, "Vacation" will surprise anyone familiar with American prison dramas (or perhaps with the prison system itself) to the point of looking almost alien. Toru Hirai, is one of the prison guards, imprisoned by his job, who volunteers unsavory duty of assisting in the death of a man in exchange a one week vacation for his honeymoon, and above all to connect to an adoptive son that rejects him as his new father.

    We are with Kaneda even when he is not present. Time ticks towards his execution, and the film moves nervously back and forth in time leaving pauses and silences that make the confrontation with what is happening on the screen inevitable. Kaneda cries and drinks his last glass of water. Toru , the prison guard, looks on as powerless and resigned as the spectator. The result is a poetic, but tale of redemption, and an outstanding movie about the death penalty with surprisingly little melodrama.
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    • Jan 23, 2009

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    • Release date
      • June 7, 2008 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
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    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Vacation
    • Production company
      • Little Bird
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 55 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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