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Deep in gloom, he chances upon a Japanese exhibition which inspires him to write their most famous work, "The Mikado."

The English comic opera would seem an odd subject for a Mike Leigh film.

The English writer-director is known for his awardwinning darkly comic dramas such as "Secrets & Lies", "High Hopes", and "Life is Sweet." But perhaps the fiercely independent filmmaker has been yearning to break out for awhile- the pudgy Leigh named his production company Thin Man Films..

Leigh's brilliant re-creation of the most famous partnership in the British theatre has elements of traditional bio-pic- failure, triumph, intimations of immortality- but none of the stodginess and

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