A Tale of Young Elopement

Feb 7, 1987

1h 36m

★ 0.0

Overview

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.

Genres

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

Shochiku

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Cast

Setsuko

Shinobu Otake

Saotome

Ken Tanaka

Kazuo Kitashiro

Naoki Sugiura

Yasuo

Morio Kazama

Nobuko Kitashiro

Kyôko Kishida

Matsuda

Akira Emoto

Takeko

Eri Watanabe

Yoshirou

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Chef

Toshiya Sakai

Ryuukichi

Akira Nagoya

Ryokan Proprietress (Okami)

Utae Shōji

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