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MOVIE SUMMARY
Kei a cash-strapped aspiring actor (Drive My Car’s Hidetoshi
Nishijima) and Yu, a junior employee at a high-end clothing store
(Eri Yu), are a young couple living a mannered, domestic life. But
just beneath the surface of their relationship, a slow dance of high
stakes affection and alienation is nearing the breaking point. An
under-seen masterstroke of ‘90s Japanese cinema, Nobuhiro Suwa’s
breakout film, 2/Duo deftly conjures the emotional range and
improvised precision of Jacques Rivette and Mike Leigh to inhabit a
story that incrementally evokes universal sentiment from seemingly
quotidian detail. Generously lensed by Masaki Tamura (Tampopo,
Eureka, Lady Snowblood), Arbelos is proud to present this new 25th
anniversary remastered version, supervised by Tamura and Suwa.
DISC FEATURES
-New video interview with Nobuhiro Suwa
-Hanasareru Gang (1984) —
Suwa’s feature length student film
-Friends (1986) – Suwa’s
Super8 short
-A Letter from Hiroshima (2002) — Suwa’s short
commissioned by the Jeonju International Film ’Festival's Digital
Project
-Adventures of a Red Ball (2020) – Short introduction to
the Children Meet Cinema (Kodomo Eiga) initiative
-U.S.
Theatrical Trailer
-New essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
-Foreword by Pedro Costa
REVIEW QUOTES
"One of the best films of 1997" - The New York Times
"A must see" - The Chicago Reader
"Remarkably moving" - Timeout
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