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

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

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