Control Tower

Teenage solitude gets a tuneful patch in the snow-draped backwater of Hokkaido. Two high schoolers orbit each other through mixtapes and shy glances, bonding over borrowed headphones and mutual awkwardness. It’s less about grand romance and more about remembering to record over the silence.

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Takahiro Miki directed Control Tower in 2011. See Takahiro Miki's full filmography, where to start with Takahiro Miki, or where to go after you've seen everything by Takahiro Miki.

Control Tower was released in 2011 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 68 minutes.