Independence Day describes 20 increasingly nightmarish minutes in one such life. In candid interviews, two women and a teen-ager speak of their struggles to sustain family and community connections amid current socioeconomic conditions. Immediately following Independence Day. Unemployed samurai Toshiro Mifune sells his services to two rival factions in a small town, then sits back and watches the enemies exterminate each other. For all his bumbling, Sanjuro provides his students with lessons in honorable samurai conduct, but their understanding never gets past floating camellias downstream to alert their enemies.
Postcards is an angry cry about growing up gay in a hostile society.
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