# It's a Flickering Life (2021)

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**Original title**: *キネマの神様*
**Runtime**: 125 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Yoji Yamada
**Written by**: Yoji Yamada, Yuzo Asahara
**Starring**: Kenji Sawada, Masaki Suda, Mei Nagano, Yojiro Noda, Keiko Kitagawa, Shinobu Terajima

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Movie-struck Go meets Imamura in a Tokyo film studio where celluloid dreams go to die. He drifts from reel to reel through a half-century romance with the same woman while celluloid ghosts rewrite every generation. Yamada’s camera can’t decide whether to focus on the flicker or the family caught in it.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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