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Repast

195197 min7.6 / 10

A quietly melancholic domestic drama about a woman's quiet dissatisfaction with her marriage and life, catalyzed by a visitor's arrival in post-war Japan.

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arranged marriage.

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