Winner of the Grand Prize in the short film section at the 1987 Torino Film Festival in Italy, Yosuke Fujita may have been making films for more than two decades, but it's only now that audiences have the chance to see the director's first full-length... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Wed, Jan 23 2008
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