End of the World

Jul 28, 1995

1h 5m

★ 9.0

Overview

A fugitive man and woman (Kawase, Kawana) come to an island to retrieve their son (Iwasaki), who the woman has given to a foster family, but the son's foster parents are policemen (Ito)... The suspense surrounding the retrieval of the son is made unusual by the location shooting on the vast and desolate Miyakejima Island and leads to an allegorical drama about the essential desires of human beings. This was Kawase Yota's first appearance in a Zeze film, and he has since become a regular actor. The title of the film at the time of its first release was Sukebe Tenkomori.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Kokuei Company

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Cast

Ryo Kaneda

Yohta Kawase

Arisu

Mai Kawana

Noriko Motomiya

Yukiko Izumi

Hiroshi Motomiya

Takeshi Itō

Detective

Setsuhiko Kobayashi

Arisu's lover

Takahiro Hosoya

Makoto Iwasaki

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