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05/29/03
Japon (2003)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:20
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: A slow-moving, visually impressive debut.
Theatrical Release:Mar 19, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Assisted by a cane, the unidentified lead (Alejandro Ferretis) of JAPON limps through a desolate canyon in his trademark red flannel jacket searching for deeper meaning. He has arrived at this... [More]
Starring: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalene Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martin Serrano
Director: Carlos Reygadas
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Reviews for Japon
The one thing that is clear from Japón is that a major new visual stylist has hit the screen and that Reygadas' first film represents the beginning of an auspicious career.
05/18/03
Reygadas has fashioned a slow-burning meditation on life and death, faith and rebirth.
02/11/03
Unfolding at an elliptical pace that feels like a revelation, or tedium, or both, Japon recalls the glory days of 1970s art-house filmmaking.
05/09/03
It is the work of a remarkable new talent.
04/17/03
It's not a movie to see if you're in a hurry, but its deliberate pace and thoughtful mood are refreshing antidotes to the hyperactive speed of most Hollywood pictures.
03/20/03
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07/08/06
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09/26/05
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12/30/06
The breadth and depth of Japon belies its standing as a directorial debut.
11/13/02
Gutsy, idiosyncratic and not a little perverse.
11/13/02
obese in length and overflowing in pretension like so many prototypical art films
07/02/06
The sacrificed female body is used to resurrect a condemned soul and with her ascension comes the spiritual renewal of (The) Man.
08/01/03
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02/26/03
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03/25/03
This excellent debut by Mexican director Carlos Reygadas exhibits a maturity rarely seen in a first film.
11/13/02
Reygadas grapples with the most elemental of issues ... and the result is sly, touching and more than a little loony.
04/24/03
Nothing shy of enthralling.
04/19/06
Unlike a lot of young filmmakers, the 31-year-old Reygadas takes his ideas about the world and our place in it as seriously as his filmmaking ambitions.
04/24/03
Its pretensions have the ring of, if not exactly a vanity project, a strictly personal obsession.
09/05/03
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