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  • 2021
  • Crescendo House
  • 2 h 59 m
  • 2021
  • Crescendo House
  • 2 h 59 m

Summary Setouchi Kinema, the only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront, is about to close its doors. Its last night of existence will be an all-night marathon screening of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen. The trio are th...

Directed By: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Written By: Kazuya Konaka, Tadashi Naitô, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

  • 2021
  • Crescendo House
  • 2 h 59 m
  • 2021
  • Crescendo House
  • 2 h 59 m

Labyrinth of Cinema

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Summary Setouchi Kinema, the only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront, is about to close its doors. Its last night of existence will be an all-night marathon screening of Japanese war films. When lightning strikes the theater, three young men in the audience find themselves thrown back in time into the world inside the screen. The trio are th...

Directed By: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Written By: Kazuya Konaka, Tadashi Naitô, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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11% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 9 Critic Reviews
82
89% Positive
8 Reviews
11% Mixed
1 Review
0% Negative
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100
Oct 20, 2021
Labyrinth of Cinema is tremendously affecting, frequently beguiling, usually exhausting, and on, and on, and on.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
91
Oct 20, 2021
This mammoth final effort by Ôbayashi, an artist who so often destroyed the conventional boundaries of cinematic space in works like 1977’s Hausu, is a completely humbling viewing experience.
By Glenn Heath Jr. FULL REVIEW
90
Oct 20, 2021
A thrilling, sprawling sensory overload that simultaneously enchants and overwhelms.
By Dave White FULL REVIEW
89
Dec 30, 2021
Labyrinth of Cinema is a chaotic entanglement of ideas and endearing characters, a sweet departure for the luminous artist Ôbayashi was.
By Jenny Nulf FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 20, 2021
Labyrinth of Cinema is indeed labyrinthine, a maze of jokes, film references, quirky back projections, bargain-basement effects and melodramatic confrontations. But at its centre is something deeply serious: a belief that, as the sole country to have experienced a nuclear strike, Japan has a terrifying exceptionalism. This awful truth is marked by a tonal cymbal-clash, both acidly comic and desperately sad.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 20, 2021
Manic, maximalist, and bristling with postmodern bells and whistles, Labyrinth of Cinema is exactly what its title suggests.
By William Repass FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 20, 2021
An ambitious, over-reaching film without the budget, polish or will to achieve its aims.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Producers System Company (PSC)
Release Date Oct 20, 2021
Duration 2 h 59 m
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Website https://crescendo.house/pages/labyrinth-of-cinema
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