Kei a cash-strapped aspiring actor (DRIVE MY CAR’S Hidetoshi Nishijima) and Yu, a junior employee at a high-end clothing store (Eri Yu), are a young couple living a mannered, domestic life. But just beneath the surface of their relationship, a slow dance of high stakes affection and alienation is nearing the breaking point. An under-seen masterstroke of ‘90s Japanese cinema, Nobuhiro Suwa’s breakout film, 2/DUO deftly conjures the emotional range and improvised precision of Jacques Rivette and Mike Leigh to inhabit a story that incrementally evokes universal sentiment from seemingly quotidian detail. Generously lensed by Masaki Tamura.
2/Duo (1997)
Directed by Nobuhiro Suwa
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Actor, Afección, Car, Dance, Employee, Garment, High, High-end, Jacques Rivette, Japanese Cinema, Kei, Mike Leigh, National, Range, Store, Surface, Tale
Alternate Titles
2/Duo
FR
2/dyuo
JP
2/デュオ
JP
Duo
CZ
Kaksi on duo
FI
Đôi Lứa
VN
愛情二重奏
HK