Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)

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A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
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Dec 28, 1974
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01h 41m
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A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

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