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Bus

Bus

1987 1h 20mDrama

A village in a different world that I do not know anywhere. There are five laws in the village, and if you break that rule you will be punished. The driver of the bus with the synonym of "Bengal's Tiger" attempts to escape from the village with two friends, but failed five times. By the instruction of the computer of "city", memory is erased as punishment. After that, the village steadily got dominated by the computer of the "city", and the driver of the bus who lost his memory kept living calmly while being watched by the lover. Meanwhile, a guerrilla group had been expecting the collapse of computer control.

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A village in a different world that I do not know anywhere. There are five laws in the village, and if you break that rule you will be punished. The driver of the bus with the synonym of "Bengal's Tiger" attempts to escape from the village with two friends, but failed five times. By the instruction of the computer of "city", memory is erased as punishment. After that, the village steadily got dominated by the computer of the "city", and the driver of the bus who lost his memory kept living calmly while being watched by the lover. Meanwhile, a guerrilla group had been expecting the collapse of computer control.

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Takashi KomatsuTakashi KomatsuDirector

Cast

Yutaka Itou
Koichi Kyoichi
Makiyo Kuroiwa
Toru Usuda
Katsumi Yamanoi
Kenji Osuga

Director

Takashi Komatsu

Writer

Takashi Komatsu

Release date

14 Jun 1987

Runtime

1h 20m

Studio

PFF Partners

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

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