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Cancer Major 
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ALT__TITLE |
1. Doomed 2.
To Live |
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DISABILITY |
Cancer
Terminal |
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A lowly
civil servant, Watanabe, discovers that he has |
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terminal
stomach cancer (gastric). His response is to quit his |
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job which he
has been in for 30 years. His wife dead, his son |
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estranged
and no friends he walks into a bar intent on drinking himself to
death. He meets there a writer who takes him on a pub crawl.
Later he sets his eye on a young woman from his office. This
isn't fruitful but it does inspire him to do something for others.
This something becomes a project to replace a cesspool
with a playground for which a group of women have been
campaigning. This film is about learning one is soon to die and
coming to terms with that. Though in Watanbe's case he has been
considered 'dead' for 30 years and is known to his
co-workers as The Mummy. A classic exploration of one man's
psyche. |
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