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Ako
196528 min 38 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Production: Shigeru Wakatsuki
Script: Kobo Abo
Co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Nanjin Club, Tokyo.
Ako, a girl of sixteen, is employed in a bakery where boys and girls are manipulating masses of impressive dough, rambling exchange, laughter. There is no continuity in the dialogue and fragmented images in this film which takes the unusual nature of a dream. Ako is the prototype of the young Japanese trying to live in freedom and escape the traditions of her country.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Adolescent BehaviourAdolescents
- Children and Youth > Adolescent Social BehaviourYouth of the World
- Foreign Countries > Japan
Credits
- director
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- producer
- Shigeru Wakatsuki
- associate producer
- André Belleau
- Victor Jobin
- script
- Kobo Abo
- cinematography
- Yasuhiro Ishimoto
- cast
- Niki Irie