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Karakara(2012)
Status: Released
Date: 2012-08-31
30%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 43m
Overview:
Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (she?) may take him.
Languages: English, French, Japanese.
Countries:
Canada,
Japan
ProductionCompanies:
Kukuru Vision
Zuno Films
Movie: Karakara
Top 10 Billed Cast
Gabriel Arcand
Pierre
工藤夕貴
Junko
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Overview
Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (she?) may take him.
Release Date
2012-08-31
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