Yakiniku Dragon

Jun 22, 2018

2h 8m

★ 7.9

Overview

Set in the 1970's in the Kansai region of Japan.. Yong-Gil is Korean, but he moved to Japan and settled down. He runs a small restaurant named Yakiniku Dragon. He is married and has three daughters: oldest daughter Jung-Hwa, middle daughter Yi-Hwa and youngest daughter Mi-Hwa. Oldest daughter Jung-Hwa is dating Tetsuo, but they break up. Middle daughter Yi-Hwa loves Tetsuo and marries him, but Tetsuo still loves her older sister and they divorce. Youngest daughter Mi-Hwa wants to become a singer, but she is in love with a married man.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Phantom Film

KADOKAWA

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Cast

Jung Hwa (Shizuka)

Yoko Maki

Yi Hwa (Rika)

Mao Inoue

Tetsuo

Yo Oizumi

Mi Hwa (Mika)

Hitomi Miyauchi

Hasegawa

Ryohei Otani

Tokio

Shinpei Ooe

Oh Shin-Gil

Shohei Uno

Mineko

Toshie Negishi

Young-Soon

Lee Jung-eun

Yong-Gil

Kim Sang-ho

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