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Based on the life of a legendary capoeira fighter from Bahia, "Besouro" spins a fantastic tale of a young Brazilian man of African descent in search of his mission.
$5000000
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90 min
2009-10-30
Released
Portuguese
57
6
Besouro
Dinorá
Exu
Coronel Venâncio
Noca de Antônia
Mestre Alípio
Chico Canoa
Quero-Quero
Teresa
Serafim
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0.0
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7.0
Kenichi Shibuya is a 50-year-old salaryman who divorced a few years back. Since the divorce, his relationship with his daughter has become awkward. One day, Kenichi Shibuya and his boss Yumi Ayase are struck by lightning and die. They go to the afterlife. There in the afterlife they hear of a legendary soup. If someone drinks the legendary soup, that person is reborn, but the reborn person has no memories of their prior life. Kenichi Shibuya then searches for the secrets in the legendary soup, hoping to be reborn, but not forget his daughter.
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7.6
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8.5
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4.4
A story about young man who is trying to turn his village into an agricultural center.
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3.5
Set against the backdrop of post-war Britain, John Osborneʼs modern classic conjures the seedy glamour of the old music halls for an explosive examination of public masks and private torment.
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