Natsu no niwa: The Friends
Three young boys from Kobe form an unlikely friendship with a lonely old man and help him restore his house and neglected garden during the summer.
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"This is an old hermit. Society ignores him. On the other side of the horseshoe are kids looking for an adventure with tons of free time. So the uselessness on both ends becomes magnetic. This old hermit, no one would think twice about him. He is about to die alone. The kids come out of nowhere to bother him. It frames the kids acting as the hand of god, due to their innocence outside the mechanisms of society that abandoned him. The style of the movie... how the shots, writing, and performance fuse. His best long takes are the ones I don't realize are long takes because I am in a tranc..."
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Three young boys from Kobe form an unlikely friendship with a lonely old man and help him restore his house and neglected garden during the summer.