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Heart, Beating in the Dark is not the sort of film you expect. Labelled a remake, a sequel and a continuation, the first thing you’d expect it to be is confused, but it is far from that. Director Shunichi Nagasaki weaves these seemingly disparate purposes into a deft and rich fabric with little to no apparent effort. In his original film, an independent production shot in 1982 on Super8, Ringo and Inako are hiding out in an apartment, trying to … (read more)