Born In Summer (1998)
A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.
Director:
Kenji Murakami
Writer:
Kenji Murakami
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Kenji Murakami as |
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Yukiyasu Shimada as |
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Rie Uematsu as |
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Shinobu Kuribayashi as |
| Directing | Kenji Murakami | Director |
| Editing | Kenji Murakami | Editor |
| Editing | Kazuhiro Shirao | Editor |
| Crew | Kenji Murakami | Cinematography |
| Writing | Kenji Murakami | Screenplay |
| Production | Kenji Murakami | Producer |