Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.
Directed by Masayuki Suō
taisho period
theatre
benshi
shitamachi
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.5 / 5
Cast
Ryo Narita
Shuntaro Sometani
Yuina Kuroshima
Umeko Kurihara
Masatoshi Nagase
Shusei Yamaoka
Kengo Kora
Takayuki Motegi
Mao Inoue
Kotoe Tachibana
Takuma Otoo
Torao Yasuda
Yutaka Takenouchi
Tadayoshi Kimura
Naoto Takenaka
Tomio Aoki
Eri Watanabe
Toyoko Aoki
Fumiyo Kohinata
Shigezo Tachibana
Yusuke Sugiyama
Iwatetsu
Minami Kajihara
Crew
Masayuki Suō
Director
Masayuki Suō
Screenplay
Kazuhito Amano
Producer
Koichi Noguchi
Visual Effects
Popular Reviews
2 reviews
Tyler Burns
7.0★ · 10/17/23
This was really good, up until the last third where it just dragged on for too long. This movie definitely didn’t need to be 2 hours long. The parts I enjoyed were really good though. It’s just that last third that really gets me.
This was really good, up until the last third where it just dragged on for too long. This movie definitely didn’t need to be 2 hours long. The parts I enjoyed were really good though. It’s just that last third that really gets me.
