A Quiet Life

Sep 23, 1995

2h 1m

★ 7.4

Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburō Ōe's masterpiece now blossoms with the music of Hikari Ōe.

Overview

A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Itami Productions

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Cast

Ma-chan

Hinako Saeki

Iiyo

Atsuro Watabe

Father

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Mother

Mihoko Shibata

Arai

Masayuki Imai

Weather Forecast

Tamaki Ogawa

Danto

Takao Okamura

Danto's Wife

Nobuko Miyamoto

Oh-chan

Yoshiyuki Omori

Keita Tsukui

Asakura

Tokie Hidari

Water Bottle Man

Tetsu Watanabe

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