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What does "mono no aware" mean?

April 4, 2009
|In Blog
|By Jeffrey Overstreet

Jason Morehead enlightens us as to the meaning of “mono no aware”… his first feature at Filmwell today.

Lo and behold, I realize that I love a lot of movies that explore “mono no aware.”

He also surveys some memorable Japanese movies like The Twilight Samurai and After Life.

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