Library Wars

Here's a movie that imagines librarians as paramilitary. A young woman joins a task force to protect libraries from government censorship. It seems the film may have confused "book smarts" for, well, smarts.

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Shinsuke Sato directed Library Wars in 2013. See Shinsuke Sato's full filmography, where to start with Shinsuke Sato, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shinsuke Sato.

Library Wars was released in 2013 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 128 minutes.