Sketches of Kaitan City
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| 海炭市叙景 | |
| Directed by | Kazuyoshi Kumakiri |
| Produced by | Michio Koshikawa |
| Written by | Takashi Ujita |
| Based on | Yasushi Sato |
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| Music by | Jim O'Rourke |
| Cinematography | Ryuto Kondo |
| Edited by | Yoshisuke Hori |
| Distributed by | Slow Learner |
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152 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Sketches of Kaitan City (海炭市叙景 Kaitanshi Jokei?) is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, starring Mitsuki Tanimura and Ryo Kase.
The film had its world premiere at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2010. It was released in Japan on 18 December 2010.
Dustin Chang of Twitch Film felt that the film "resembles strongly of the neo-neo realism of the Dardenne brothers' films but without their sense of hope". Meanwhile, Maggie Lee of The Hollywood Reporter noted Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's "low key but tender depictions of working class people and subtle assimilation of socio-economical realities, redolent of the works of Jia Zhangke and Wang Bing's West of the Tracks".
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