Number Ten Blues


Number Ten Blues or Goodbye Saigon is a 1975 Japanese 35mm fujicolor film directed by. This movie, shot between December 1974 and April 1975, remained unfinished and was considered lost for many years. It was finally completed and released in 2013.

Plot

in February 1975, during the final stage of the Vietnam War, there is another story of love and violence. Japanese businessman Sugimoto accidentally kills a Vietnamese man. He loses all title and social status that supported his wealthy position in Vietnam. He decides to escape from Vietnam. He heads North on the military road under battle conditions, with his lover, Lan, and Taro, who is the half-blood son of an ex-Japanese soldier and a Vietnamese woman since World War II. Who knows what awaits them: is it liberation or total catastrophe?

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Reception

This never-shown film was found in the basement of the National Film Center in Tokyo. Completely shot in Vietnam over 850 kilometers in the midst of the war. Location is Huế, Hải Vân Gorge, National [Route 1 (Vietnam)|Road No. 1], Long Hải and Saigon.