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Japanese Story

Name: Japanese Story
Genre: drama, romance
Duration: 105 min

2003 · 105 min

IMDb7,050 votes6.8 / 10 Rotten Tomatoes Audience361 votes70%Rotten Tomatoes Critics89 reviews70%Metacritic32 reviews73 / 100

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Synopsis

Sandy (Toni Collette), a geologist, finds herself stuck on a field trip to the Pilbara desert with a Japanese man she finds inscrutable, annoying and decidedly arrogant. Hiromitsu’s (Otaro Tsunashima) view of her is not much better. Things go from bad to worse when they become stranded in one of the most remote regions on earth. Japanese Story is a journey of change and discovery.

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Released: 2003
Runtime: 105 minutes
Genres: drama, romance

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Cast & crew

Cast

Toni Collette
Gotaro Tsunashima
Matthew Dyktynski
Lynette Curran
Yumiko Tanaka
Kate Atkinson
Bill Young

Director

Sue Brooks

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