The Insect Woman(にっぽん昆虫記)
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Japan · 1963
2h 3m
Director Shōhei Imamura
Starring Emiko Aizawa, Masumi Harukawa, Sachiko Hidari, Emiko Higashi
Genre Drama
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A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. Like the metaphor of an insect, doomed to keep repeating its mistakes in an infinite circle, Tome, keeps trying to change her poor life and avoid her fate.
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