19 (film)

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19
Directed by Kazushi Watanabe
Screenplay byKazushi Watanabe
Edited byKazushi Watanabe
Release date
  • July 14, 2001 (2001-07-14)(Japan)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

19 is a 2001 Japanese drama film written and directed by Kazushi Watanabe. [1] [2] It was released on 14 July 2001. [1]

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Cast

Reception

Tom Mes of Midnight Eye wrote that the film "has less to do with social comment than with delivering an exercise in consistency." [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 19 (ナインティーン) (2000). Allcinema.net (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Mes, Tom (18 March 2002). "Midnight Eye review: 19 (19, 2001, Kazushi WATANABE)". Midnight Eye . Retrieved 31 August 2014.