Location

Location

1984 · 99 min · ★ 8.5 · Comedy

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.

Directed by Azuma Morisaki · Written by Shoji Kondo

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