Labyrinth of Cinema (2019)
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- Synopsis:
- The story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japan's feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.
- Actors:
- Tadanobu Asano, Takuro Atsuki, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Takato Hosoyamada, Shin'nosuke Mitsushima, Riko Narumi, Yukihiro Takahashi, Takako Tokiwa, Hirona Yamazaki, Rei Yoshida, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
- Directors:
- Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
- Producers:
- Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
- Writers:
- Kazuya Konaka, Tadashi Naitô, Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
- Aka:
- Umibe no eigakan - Kinema no tamatebako
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- Not released
- Run Time:
- 184 minutes
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Reviews (1) of Labyrinth of Cinema
A Sprawling, Messy Goodbye - Labyrinth of Cinema review by griggs
By the time this kicks off, it feels like you’ve been handed a cinema ticket and a safety helmet. Obayashi’s final film starts in a closing movie theatre, then throws three young cinema-goers into a kaleidoscope of Japanese film and history — with war as the recurring gut-punch. If House is your fears in a blender, Labyrinth of Cinema is your brain in one, lid slightly ajar.
When it stays playful, it’s a riot: bright, cheeky, and joyfully unbothered by continuity. You can feel the love of cinema in every abrupt swerve.
When it turns dark, it drops you into 1945 and towards Hiroshima, and the film can become genuinely hard to track — not “mysterious”, more “which layer of the movie are we in now?” Still, the anti-war anger is sincere, and the emotion sneaks up on you. A sprawling, messy goodbye that lands more often than it misses.