Every Trick In The Book

Toyama’s winter streets, crunch of snow under 9 p.m. headlights. A driver sweeps up a perfect counterfeit, his shift ending. The next morning the lot is empty, the doves silent. He flees, editor trails the vanished family, the canceled postal route, a sky stuffed with false yen. Facts twist into fiction, then back. A 2021 neo-noir that darkens its own source.

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Hideta Takahata directed Every Trick In The Book in 2021. See Hideta Takahata's full filmography, where to start with Hideta Takahata, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hideta Takahata.

Every Trick In The Book was released in 2021 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 119 minutes.