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H Story
Directed by Nobuhiro Suwa
Written byNobuhiro Suwa
Produced byTakenori Sentô
Starring Béatrice Dalle
Cinematography Caroline Champetier
Edited byNobuhiro Suwa
Distributed byTokyo Theatres
Release date
  • 17 October 2001 (2001-10-17)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office$55,000 [1]

H Story is a 2001 Japanese drama film by writer-director Nobuhiro Suwa. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. [2] It is an autobiographical docufiction about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour . [2] [3]

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References

  1. "H Story (2001) - JPBox-Office".
  2. 1 2 "Festival de Cannes: H Story". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  3. See G. HAINGE, A Tale of (at least) two Hiroshimas : Nobuhiro Suwa’s H Story and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour, Contemporary French Civilization 32, 2 (2008), p. 147-173; Id., The Reverse Atomic Principle of Hiroshima mon amour Archived 10 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine .