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April Fish
JAPAN · 1986

April Fish

Nobuhiko Obayashi
deception and imposture creative crisis filmmaker culture cross-cultural encounter romantic masquerade
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Synopsis

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.

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