Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned that her parents are not her biological parents. Cheiko’s mother told her that she was stolen while sleeping under a cherry tree in Gion, Kyoto, Japan, but Chieko doesn’t believe that. Her relationship with her parents is very close. Chieko only tells her childhood friend Shinichi, but…
Category: Drama
Drama
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Silver Lakes
The handsome Sergei Kovalev decided that engineering was not his profession and left to live with relatives in the provincial town of Serebryanye Ozera. There he met the family of a young artist, unexpectedly became angry, and decided to take revenge on his new friend. The peculiar motorcycle duel ended tragically for Igor.
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Pilgrim, Farewell
A woman suffering from terminal cancer struggles to resolve several relationships in her life: a devoted but stressed lover, an estranged sister, and a daughter on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
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Microphone Test
A television cameraman and his subject find themselves in the middle of an intertwined professional and personal dilemma.
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Why Would I Lie?
Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term ‘fabrication’ to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he’s assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a ‘J’) who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women’s advice councillor.
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Babylon XX
The new reality changes the usual life in the village of Babylon. Attempts to communize the small town are met with resistance from the rich people living in the town. The Red Army finally puts down the resistance. Amidst the resistance philosopher Fabian returns to Babylon and tries to prevent bloodshed, but he meets a tragic fate.
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Paragraf 224
Placek (Josef Kemr), the head of research in a chemical plant, appreciates the help of his younger colleague Bernát (Alois Svehlík) in the creation of a new synthetic material.
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Valentina
A drama about an affair between 18 years old dinning-room waitress and much older police investigator.