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Pure Japanese

Pure Japanese

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 28, 2022

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Action, Drama

User Score

74%

Original Title

Pure Japanese

Director

Daishi Matsunaga

Description

Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently by Chinese brokers and the local yakuza. He decides to protect her from them. However, after this incident, he comes to develop a mindset of seeing violence as a way to gain the affirmation and approval of others thus gradually loses himself and behaves in an extreme manner.