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Panos Kotzathanasis
Asian Movie Pulse
Saitoh directs a movie that benefits the most from the narrative, with him implementing the different timelines and the flashbacks in a way that is quite entertaining, while "filling" the story with events, thus managing to present a compact film
Nov 30, 2019
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Nathanael Hood
The Young Folks
Many films have dealt with death and grief, but few have truly considered the initial emptiness and mystery of loss as poignantly as Takumi Saitoh's Blank 13.
Rated: 9/10
Jul 23, 2018
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Mark Schilling
Japan Times
But instead of going down the well-trodden path to florid melodrama, with blows and tears leading the way, the film morphs, midway through its 70-minute running time, into an actors' workshop, with sharp improvised turns by familiar names.
Rated: 3/5
Feb 2, 2018
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I love this film! This film expresses Japan's summer well!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/13/23
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Audience Member
Touching and funny, never have I seen a film take a 180-degree change in tone and still works.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/25/23
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2018-12-15 Kind of like this. Felt a little healed after watching this. This movie is very light and smooth. Staking with many tiny little things in their lives to build the whole picture. And then you just finished watching this. The father is, like his friend said on the funeral, a stupid person. The father loves his family in his own way, but couldn't give them what they need as a father. He did many small things which his family could never understand, but those things do mean something to some people. Well, then maybe I am not such a loser.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/30/23
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