Once in a Blue Moon

Oct 29, 2011

2h 22m

★ 7.2

Overview

Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old ghost, Rokubei. At first Emi is hesitant, but when she pursues her lead she is visited by the ghost herself. And so the fun begins in the courtroom when Prosecutor Osano starts to cross examine.

Genres

Mystery

Comedy

Drama

Fantasy

Production Companies

TOHO

Fuji Television Network

Cine Bazar

Once in a Blue Moon Trailers

Cast

Emi Hosho

Eri Fukatsu

Rokubei Sarashina

Toshiyuki Nishida

Hayami

Hiroshi Abe

Suzuko Yabe / Fuko Hino

Yuko Takeuchi

Osano

Kiichi Nakai

Kuma Maeda

Kyoko Fukada

Daiki Murata

Koichi Sato

Inose

Kazuyuki Asano

Mrs.Inose

Keiko Toda

Goro Yabe

KAN

Joji Danda

Fumiyo Kohinata

Kenichi Kido

Tadanobu Asano

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