Tokyo Newcomer
Tokyo Newcomer
| 22 March 2012 (USA)
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A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and becomes embarrassed living there. By dropping his Go stones, he happens to meet an old Japanese woman who sells vegetables on the street. They become familiar with each other. The young Chinese Go player, the old woman named Igarashi and her grandson Shoichi then live together.

Reviews
MonsterPerfect

Good idea lost in the noise

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FrogGlace

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

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Ella-May O'Brien

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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Ortiz

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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fallguy-60871

Stumbled on to this gem on youtube. The trailers give the wrong impression of the movie's pace & content. Tokyo Newcomer is gentle, quiet & has hidden depths.

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