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Owl is a film of genre Drama directed by Kaneto Shindō released in USA on 1 january 2003 with Akira Emoto
Owl (2003)
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Add to a movie listOwl (ふくろう, Fukurō) is a 2003 Japanese black comedy film directed by Kaneto Shindo. It was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival where Shinobu Otake won the award for Best Actress and Shindo was awarded a special prize for contribution to world cinema.
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Around 1980, two women, a mother and a daughter, the last occupants of a farming village called "Kibogaoka" for Japanese returnees from Manchuria, are slowly starving to death. As one of the women contemplates eating a lizard, the other suggests a better way to survive. They telephone a dam construction site and offer themselves as prostitutes. A worker comes to visit them, has sex with the mother, and then they give him their "special drink". This causes him to foam at the mouth, emit animal noises, and then die. They cart his body off and celebrate getting his money.Actors
Akira Emoto
(dam construction worker B)
Shinobu Ōtake
(the mother)
Ayumi Itō
(Emiko)
Tomorowo Taguchi
(the plumber)
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