The Most Beautiful Night In The World

May 24, 2008

2h 40m

★ 6.1

Overview

Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lack of propriety, and her ace fisherman/folk-singer dad. Or the overbearing and unpleasant local Shinto priest, a former Christian cultist. Or Endo, Kazuya's new colleague, a bitter drunk after his son's suicide. Or Kin, a former terrorist, now a hermit on his boat engaging in secret "research." Or perhaps most importantly Teruko, the hypnotically beautiful bar owner, the focus of all manner of innuendo and intrigue. Something mysterious, even mystical, is going on Kaname, and hapless Kazuya is about to be thrown into the middle of it.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Kazuya Mizuno

Tomorowo Taguchi

Teruko Hinohara

Sarara Tsukifune

Midori

Haruki Ichikawa

Ishizuka

Shunsuke Matsuoka

Shineko

Michié

Kenji Onizuka

Ayumu Saito

Teresa

Noriko Eguchi

Journalist

Akira Emoto

Gonza

Kan Mikami

Kinichi Nihei

Ryo Ishibashi

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