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| | Midnight Eye review: Sixty Nine ('69 Sixty Nine', 2004, LEE Sang-Il) |
 | | Anti-war protests, clashes with riot police, strikes, flirtations with communism, bra-burning, free love, rock 'n' roll and LSD; the days of Jimi, Jim and Janis are still elevated to the level of myth everywhere from Austin Powers to the bistros of the Parisian soixante-huitards. |
 | | To its smart alec protagonist Ken (Tsumabuki), stuck in a rural backwater near Nagasaki while the rest of the world is on fire, the zeitgeist is summed up in a single image: naked women at Woodstock. |
 | | If rock festivals make women spontaneously undress, Ken figures he and his friends must organise their own festival if he is ever to get to first, let alone second, base with Matsui (Ota), the school beauty. |
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