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Miko Girl

2018 · 98 min Comedy Drama
6.7 / 10 · TMDB

Shiwasu's mother left their home when Shiwasu was a little girl. Shiwasu does not understand why. She is a woman now and working at a Shinto shrine as a shrine maiden under her father who is a priest. She is listless until she finds a little boy alone on the shrine's grounds. The boy's mother shows up and retrieves her son a couple of days later. That is not the end of it however. The boy is back soon and has marks and bruises on his body. In the meantime, there was petty theft going on.

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Original Title 巫女っちゃけん。
Year 2018
Country Japan
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Su-yeon Gu
Runtime 98 min.
Rating TMDB: 6.7/10 (3 votes)

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The director constructs a delicate balance between the serene, ritualistic world of the shrine and the raw, mundane cruelty that disrupts it. He works with a restrained visual palette, where silence and glances carry more weight than dialogue, exploring how personal trauma can echo into the duty we feel toward others.

What lingers after the final scene is a quiet, persistent ache—a story that offers no easy solutions but gently insists on the importance of seeing the hidden bruises in those around us. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Su-yeon Gu

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