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Three Loves
JAPAN · 1954

Three Loves

Masaki Kobayashi
social ostracism childhood isolation gifted outsider coming of age found family
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Synopsis

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michiko, but they too have problems of their own.

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