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Manhole Children

don't miss! Japan, 2008 | 117 min. | Dir. Yoshio Harada

I could spend hours on Manhole Children, my favorite film of SIFF 2009. It is a story about the effects of neoliberalism (after the fall of the Soviet Union, Mongolia turned to capitalism and plunged thousands upon thousands of people into a deep hole of poverty). It is a story about the city (for shelter and warmth, thousands of homeless children moved into manholes beneath the freezing streets of Ulan Bator). It is a love story (there is one broken heart, and two broken souls). And, lastly, it is a story told with Japanese objectivity, which is not the same as Western objectivity. Do not miss this documentary; it is sad but also as strange as your strangest dreams. Ulan Bator has population of one million. By Charles Mudede

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