# La Pièce aux murs épais (1956)

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**Original title**: *壁あつき部屋*
**Runtime**: 110 min
**Genres**: Drama, War
**Directed by**: Masaki Kobayashi
**Written by**: Kōbō Abe
**Starring**: Kō Mishima, Torahiko Hamada, Keiko Kishi, Toshiko Kobayashi, Kinzō Shin, Tsutomu Shimomoto

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You wake to a concrete cell in a Japanese military prison post-WWII. Rank-and-file privates share the space, each a scapegoat for the war’s unspoken guilt. The walls mute their voices but not their fear. Post-war Japan refuses to look at them.

**Mood tags**: dread, gut-punch, outsider

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