Campaign

A cinema-verite documentary which closely follows a heated election campaign in Japan, revealing the true nature of

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2007 / 120min.

Rating5.8

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Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Can a candidate with no political experience and no charisma win an election if he is backed by the political giant Prime Minister Koizumi and his Liberal Democratic Party? This cinema-verite documentary closely follows a heated election campaign in Kawasaki, Japan, revealing the true nature of "democracy."

Directors

Kazuhiro Soda

Actors

Junichiro Koizumi

Kazuhiko Yamauchi

Seiko Hashimoto

Nobuteru Ishihara

Yoriko Kawaguchi

Fumio Mochida

Daishiro Yamagiwa

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