Lady Joker

Dec 11, 2004

2h 1m

★ 7.5

Overview

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

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Cast

Yuichiro Goda

Satoshi Tokushige

Seizo Monoi

Tetsuya Watari

Katsumi Ko

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Junichi Nunokawa

Ren Osugi

Shuhei Handa

Koji Kikkawa

Yokichi Matsudo

Haruhiko Kato

Keiko Shiroyama

Miho Kanno

Satoru Hirase

Jun Kunimura

Seiichi Shirai

Ittoku Kishibe

Nishimura

Yutaka Matsushige

Kyosuke Shiroyama

Kyōzō Nagatsuka

Autumn is in the air as the Kitauji High School concert band prepares for the National Competition. The band hears troubling news that Asuka Tanaka, vice president of the club and one of the key euphonium players in the band, may quit! Asuka is beautiful and charismatic and everyone relies on her, but she also has a cool side and never reveals her true self. Kumiko doesn’t get along with Asuka initially, but her feelings change when she learns that Asuka may actually drop out. Asuka has feelings about the euphonium that she cannot tell anyone else…

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