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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Away With Words<br />
| image = Away_With_Words.jpg<br />
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| caption = DVD cover of film from its release in India.<br />
| director = [[Christopher Doyle]] <br />
| producer = Hiro Tokimori<br>Noburu Uoya<br />
| writer = [[Christopher Doyle]]<br>[[Tony Rayns]]<br />
| starring = [[Tadanobu Asano]]<br>Kevin Sherlock<br>[[Mavis Xu]]<br />
| music = <br />
| cinematography = Christopher Doyle<br />
| editing = Anne Goursaud<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|1999|08|07|df=yes}}<br />
| runtime = 90 minutes<br />
| country = Hong Kong<br>Japan<br />
| language = Cantonese<br>English<br>Japanese<br />
| budget = <br />
| gross = <br />
}}<br />
'''''Away with Words''''' (known also by its [[Chinese language|Chinese]] title 三條人, roughly translated as ''Three Life-stories'', and its [[Japanese language|Japanese]] title 孔雀, translated as ''Peacock'') is a 1999 [[Auteur theory|auteur]] trilingual ([[Japanese language|Japanese]], [[English language|English]], [[Standard Cantonese|Cantonese]]) film by [[Christopher Doyle]] co-scripted by Doyle and [[Tony Rayns]] and starring [[Tadanobu Asano]], Kevin Sherlock and [[Mavis Hee|Mavis Xu]].<br />
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The film, shot in a jazzy, free-wheeling style and featuring Doyle's signature hyper-kinetic, oversaturated photography and eccentric humor, focuses on a trip that Asano's character takes to [[Hong Kong]] and his encounters with off-beat personalities populating the metropolitan landscape (among them, a [[beer]]-drinking [[amnesia]]c [[gay bar]] owner portrayed by Kevin Sherlock). Another narrative thread relies on [[Flashback (narrative)|flashback]]s into Asano's character's childhood in [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]]. The protagonist suffers from overbearing excesses of his [[memory]], [[mnemonic]] associations and [[synesthesia]]. The emerging human attachments provide an emotional center and a source of serenity to offset the rampage of the protagonist's mind and tame the lavish disarray of urban imagery.<br />
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The film credits [[Jorge Luis Borges]] (presumably ''[[Funes the Memorious]]'') and [[Alexander Luria]] for inspiration. Many aspects of Asano's character (memory excess, profound synesthesia, arranging memories visually along roads, wordplay, struggling with an onslaught of associations, comments about restaurant music and its effect on food taste, the waking-for-school scene) are directly borrowed from [[Alexander Luria|Luria]]'s real life case study of [[Solomon Shereshevskii]], ''The Mind of a Mnemonist''.<br />
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The film was screened in the [[Un Certain Regard]] section at the [[1999 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5387/year/1999.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Away with Words |accessdate=2009-10-09 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121007091845/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/5387/year/1999.html |archivedate=7 October 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref><br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Tadanobu Asano]] - Asano Takashi<br />
* Kevin Sherlock - Kevin<br />
* [[Mavis Xu]] - Susie<br />
* Takanori Kubo - Asano Takashi (Boy)<br />
* [[Christa Hughes]] - Christa<br />
* Georgina Dobson - Georgina<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0213469}}<br />
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[[Category:1990s Japanese-language films]]<br />
[[Category:1990s English-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Christopher Doyle]]<br />
[[Category:Japanese independent films]]<br />
[[Category:1999 directorial debut films]]<br />
[[Category:1990s Japanese films]]<br />
[[Category:1990s Hong Kong films]]<br />
[[Category:1999 multilingual films]]<br />
[[Category:Hong Kong multilingual films]]<br />
[[Category:Japanese multilingual films]]<br />
[[Category:1999 LGBTQ-related films]]<br />
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