An ingenious, charming, and ultimately touching conceit equating silent movies with Lost Youth -- specifically the lost youth of a reclusive former film actress: faint echoes of Sunset Boulevard -- and re-creating brilliantly the actual style of that era, right down to the title cards in place of speech (though sound effects, strangely, are permitted), the off-and-on Expressionistic lighting, and even the arthritic camera. Directed by Kaizo Hayashi. (1986) — Duncan Shepherd
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