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The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work out at the beginning but as time goes by the newly formed relationship between the tramp and the Drive-In worker starts to show the workers harmful will of possession, which finally leads to the somehow sad but also optimistically interpretable ending.

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    • Author: Benn
    The photography is specially good. The actors are making a very good atmosphere in a relationship that seems to be a love story.

    Also is very interesting for someone who does not know japan, because its take place in a very nice part of Japan (Hokkaido) but at the same time is very real Japan countryside. In this film we also see a part of Japan that not other films had showed yet.the character of the actor is very is very Japanese buy it also has something that every men in the world have. The girl is just fantastic the way she performs, is all in her expressions she transmit the meaning of the film.

    I really like the title of the film. Sora no Ana. Hole in the Sky. How ever thought about the sun as a hole in the sky

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    • Author: Contancia
    I found this film much spookier than the Hideo Nakata films such as Ringu and Dark Water. This is mainly because of the indirect way that the story is told. The film takes many directions at once which may lead to the "answer" behind the mystery that is the disappearance of the main character's sister. Parts of the answer seem to lurk in many dark corners of the film and where answers are not found instead you witness another horror of the impact that the disappeared girl has on the family. For this reason, it is a very strange film, and the themes it explores also makes it a very disturbing film. However the end is very satisfying, employing a beautiful visual metaphor that shouldn't be given away.

    The film holds an effective dark atmosphere throughout that feels extremely authentic and original, with an unpredictable plot that doesn't fall for the usual level of cliché that is expected in such a horror film. That acting is fantastic and the direction is unusual and uncompromising

    Also, the film I saw and the information on IMDb seem to be different, even though I saw this on cable, a Japanese film directed by the same director as listed Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, the title Antenna explained in the film as the protagonist's younger brother keeps mentioning that he can feel the missing sister with his antenna. On the plot summary it talks about a drive-in worker and a young tramp. I did not see these characters in the film. It's either the World Movies channel here is wrong or the user who submitted the plot summary is wrong.
  • Credited cast:
    Susumu Terajima Susumu Terajima - Ichio
    Rinko Kikuchi Rinko Kikuchi - Taeko (as Yuriko Kikuchi)
    Bunmei Tobayama Bunmei Tobayama - Akira
    Shunsuke Sawada Shunsuke Sawada
    Shunsuke Gondo Shunsuke Gondo - Yamazaki (as Syunsuke Gondo)
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Megumi Asaoka Megumi Asaoka
    Ryo Kase Ryo Kase - Yuichiro Ogiwada (as Ryô Kase)
    Daisuke Kizaki Daisuke Kizaki - Yuya
    Akemi Kobayashi Akemi Kobayashi - Naomi
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