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Acting
Koichi Sato's sweating, cornered bureaucrat — pure anxiety.
Direction
Sakamoto's clinical restraint makes the rot feel institutional.
Production
1973 Tokyo recreated with cigarette-stained authenticity.

Director
Junji Sakamoto
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