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Follow a train through someone else's city
by Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003
A young woman records train sounds in Tokyo. A quiet film about listening to a city.
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Hou's tribute to Ozu follows a freelance writer who collects ambient sounds from Tokyo's trains. The camera watches her ride, eat, and sit with a friend who fixes old recordings. There is no plot, only attention. It is a film that teaches you to hear a city as a composition of small mechanical and human sounds.
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