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Paco and the Magical Book is a film of genre Drama directed by Tetsuya Nakashima with Kōji Yakusho
Paco and the Magical Book (2008)
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Add to a movie listPaco and the Magical (Picture) Book (パコと魔法の絵本, Pako to Mahō no Ehon) is a 2008 Japanese film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on a play by Hirohito Goto.
It was shown at the Munich Asian Filmfest in 2008 and has been nominated for three awards for the 2009 Asian Film Awards. Actors Koji Yakusho, and Ayaka Wilson and director Tetsuya Nakashima have been nominated for the 2008 Japanese Academy Award.
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The movie is set in a hospital where "strange" people are sent. One of the older, gruffer patients, is Onuki, a business owner who is sent to the hospital after a heart attack, thinks little of the other hospital patients, and hopes to die without being remembered by such "worthless" people. Another patient, a young girl named Paco, is in the hospital due to a memory disorder- she can only remember the events of one day at a time. Each day she reads a pop-up children's book, and often asks Onuki to read to her. Each day it is a new story for her.Actors
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