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A Humble Life(1997)
Status: Released
Date: 1997-05-22
65%
9 Votes
Time: 1h 16m
Overview:
A Humble Life is certainly true to its title, a documentary study of the day-to-day world of Umeno Mathuyoshi, an old woman who lives in an isolated mountain house in the Nara prefecture in Japan.
Languages: Japanese, Russian.
Countries:
Japan,
Russia
ProductionCompanies:
The Japan Foundation
Film studio "Nadezhda"
Severny Fond
Movie: A Humble Life
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Overview
A Humble Life is certainly true to its title, a documentary study of the day-to-day world of Umeno Mathuyoshi, an old woman who lives in an isolated mountain house in the Nara prefecture in Japan.
Release Date
1997-05-22
Average
6.5
Rating:
3.3 startsTagline
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Languages:
日本語Pусский
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