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FILM DETAILS

Certificate PG

Cast Masatoshi Nagase Lili Taylor Fisher Stevens

Directors Fridrik Thor Fridriksson

Screenwriters Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Jim Stark

Running Time 85 minutes

Cold Fever
Japan meets Iceland in this strange and beautiful road trip movie

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Plot
When shamed by his grandfather, Japanese businessman Hirata (Masatoshi Nagase from Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train) cancels a Hawaiian golfing trip, instead opting for Iceland to perform a traditional ritual at the site where his parents drowned in an accident years earlier. Traversing the frozen wastes, Hirata experiences one bizarre encounter after another.

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