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- Zero Focus is entertaining and even magnetic. The aesthetic of the film is tailored in a traditional way of the Golden Age of cinema in Japan: with minimalistic tones, little of montage, long-takes focusing on the characters, modest visual part, it is enriched with allegories.
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Zero Focus. NEW. When Teiko's new husband disappears on a business trip, she finds a pair of mysterious postcards hidden in a book that might be clues to his fate. Rated: B • Jun 20, 2015.
What's most original -- and best -- about Zero Focus is its marvelous atmosphere. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 26, 2004
Three women in post-war Japan are drawn into a murder mystery. evokes Imamura's A Man Vanishes (1967), while adding Hitchcockian clifftop suspense, a giallo-esque killer-in-red, and a feminist...
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- Anton Bitel
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- Isshin Inudô
ゼロの焦点. Directed by Yoshitaro Nomura. One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara’s marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband’s past.
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- Yoshitaro Nomura
One of Japan's most famous literary mysteries, written by one of its most acclaimed authors, Seicho Matsumoto, and translated here by the masterful Yoshitaro Nomura, Zero Focus should really be something special.
Zero Focus, set for the most part in photogenic Kanazawa is a slick and classy film made by Isshin Inudo. It is based on the best-selling crime novel of the same name written by Seicho Matsumoto [松本 清張].
Nov 10, 2010 · Zero Focus is a movie worth seeing even just for the acting alone. Viewers who like fine dramas will enjoy it, while fans of Ryoko Hirosue should put this on their must-see list, as the actress plays a much bigger role here than say in Goemon (JFF 2009) or even Departures (JFF 2008).
