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THE END OF THE PALE HOUR

AKEGATA NO WAKAMONO TACHI

By Hana MATSUMOTO

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Drama - Completed 2021

23 year-old director Hana Matsumoto, only 16 when she made her first movie, is back with her feature-length film of the debut romantic novel by Masahiko Katsuse which originally created a social-media phenomenon among young people.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Duration
- 116 mn
- Director(s)
- Hana MATSUMOTO
- Writer(s)
- Kazuhisa KOTERA
- Cast
- Takumi KITAMURA, Yuina KUROSHIMA, Yuki INOUE
- Producer(s)
- Yuko NAKAMURA (MY THEATER D.D., INC.), Kano NAKAJIMA (HoriPro Inc.)
- Synopsis
- Tokyo, March 2012. a man about to graduate from university is invited to a dull gathering of “winners” who have received job offers from well-known corporations. There he meets a woman. She leaves the party early, and sends him a text: “Drinking with me might be more fun.” He leaves, meets her in a nearby park, and falls in love. A few days later, they go to see a play, and afterwards spend the night together.
  While he is happy during the time he spends with her, the printing company where he begins to work assigns him to a different section than he had hoped, and he agonizes over the gap between his ideals and his reality. He takes comfort in the support of the woman and a co-worker friend. Drinking till dawn, the three live a glorious paean to youth.
  However, after the main character and the woman spend a weekend at a luxury hotel in lieu of attending the Fuji Rock festival, she breaks off contact.
  Desolated, he explains to his co-worker friend the shocking cause of his misery. Then, to come to terms with a truth about her he was previously unwilling to face, he sets about trying to see her again.