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Dec 2, 2000

2h 6m

★ 8.5

Overview

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Kindai Eiga Kyokai

Dragon Films

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Cast

Taiji Tonoyama

Naoto Takenaka

Kimie

Keiko Oginome

Taiji's wife

Hideko Yoshida

Okaji

Nobuko Otowa

Kei Satō

Yasuhito Hida

Kei Yamamoto

Kagetora Miura

Yoshiko

Yuriko Hirooka

Young Yoshiko

Yûki Suzuki

Yasuo

Hideyuki Kasahara

Liquor Store Housewife

Kuriko Namino

Mitsuko Baisho

Masayuki Shionoya

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