Mori, The Artist's Habitat

May 19, 2018

1h 39m

★ 7.3

Overview

Vegetation thrives in painter Morikazu's garden, which is home to creatures that serve as models for his paintings, including numerous bugs and cats. A sweet and heartwarming day begins for Morikazu, who gazed at these garden creatures on a daily basis for over three decades, and those who love him.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

DUB

Bandai Visual

Aeon Entertainment

Venture Bank Entertainment

The Asahi Shimbun

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Cast

Morikazu Kumagai

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Hideko

Kirin Kiki

Takeshi Fujita

Ryo Kase

Kohei Kajima

Kaito Yoshimura

Asahina

Ken Mitsuishi

Iwatani

Munetaka Aoki

Mizushima

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Mie-chan

Nobue Iketani

Araki

Kitaro

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Ayumu Nakajima

Shizuko Mochizuki

A successful artist, weary of Parisian life and on the verge of divorce, returns to the country to live in his childhood house. He needs someone to make a real vegetable garden again out of the wilderness it has become. The gardener happens to be a former schoolfriend. A warm, fruitful conversation starts between the two men.

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