

TEL-CLUB
1998, Japanese. Directed by Kenji Murakami.
In the summer of 1998, the filmmaker went home to Takasaki to film the birth of his brother and sister-in-law's child. Days go by and the child is still to be born. With time on his hands and no one to talk to, the filmmaker finds the phone number for a telephone date club, and calls up with an earnest de- sire: I'd like to talk to a girl. While following the conventions of film-diary form, at some point the filmmaker falls into a times pace tunnel of false memory.
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 1 January 1998
- Original title
- 夏に生れる
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Kenji Murakami
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TEL-CLUB runs 76 minutes (1h 16m).
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TEL-CLUB isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1998. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
What movies are like TEL-CLUB?
If you liked TEL-CLUB, try Life in a Day, Van Gogh: Painted with Words, Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet.
Who directed TEL-CLUB?
TEL-CLUB (1998) was directed by Kenji Murakami and stars Kenji Murakami, Yukiyasu Shimada, Rie Uematsu.