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Digestion

by Tomoko KAWAMURA , Jun'ichirô TAKEDA

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Original title : Digestion

Director : Tomoko KAWAMURA , Jun'ichirô TAKEDA

Production : ICAM

Duration : 43 Minutes

Year : 2010

Original version : Japanese

Subtitled version : English

Country : Japan

Synopsis

Digestion is how we take life from other things and incorporate it into our own. The large molecules having composed other living things are broken down into smaller, microscopic molecules. Each of the epithelial cells absorb the molecules of nutrients through a thousand microvilli that make the boundary between the inside of the body and the outside. Now small molecules will be assembled into large ones, creating new life in our human bodies.

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