Journey to Japan

You board a plane in Seattle and step into Kyoto’s neon haze. An easy smile steers you to a walk-up where you wait on the floor, wrists cuffed to a pipe. The man keeps flipping pages of a dog-eared manual between bouts of silence. Outside, a festival drum pulses like a heartbeat you can’t join.

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Sadao Nakajima directed Journey to Japan in 1973. See Sadao Nakajima's full filmography, where to start with Sadao Nakajima, or where to go after you've seen everything by Sadao Nakajima.

Journey to Japan was released in 1973 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 72 minutes.