100 Yen Love
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / boxing, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the late shift at a 100 yen shop. On her way home, she passes a gym and meets boxer Kano who trains there in silence...
Our read · 100 Yen Love (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · boxing · redemption entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of 100 Yen Love
What watching it is actually like.
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