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  1. Mar 9, 2013 · The Millennial Rapture: Directed by Kôji Wakamatsu. With Tomori Abe, Mayu Harada, Anna Ishibashi, Tanroh Ishida. A curse on the lives of a noble but unholy family including a womanizer and a yakuza in Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, a remote community, casts its shadow over several generations.

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    • 2013-03-09
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    Movie:The Millennial Rapture
    Romaji:Sennen no Yuraku
    Japanese:千年の愉楽
    Director: Koji Wakamatsu

    Set within Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, "The Millennial Rapture" follows the lives of various people including a womanizer and a yakuza, all with a mythic world-view.

  2. Mar 9, 2013 · Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagamione of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew the absurdity and passion of life since its inhabitants have been living and dying.

  3. The Millennial Rapture. Audience Score. 40. NR 1 hr 58 min Drama. Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in Japan—drew...

  4. Sep 3, 2012 · The Millennial Rapture (Sennen no Yuraku): Venice Review. Shinobu Terajima, Shota Sometani and Sosuke Takaoka star in the latest Japanese drama by the massively prolific director Koji...

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  5. The Millennial Rapture, an adaptation of a Kenji Nakagami novel, is a years-spanning melodrama on the Nakamoto family curse which sees its male lineage dying to their impetuous whims and constant womanizingtold through a dying midwife's recounting of the men she helped deliver at birth.

  6. The Millennial Rapture is an adaptation of a Kenji Nakagami novel, “Sennen no yuraku” – translated as “A Thousand Years of Pleasure.” It’s a collection of stories about the live-hard-die-fast young men of the Burakumin – one of the main minority groups in Japan.