Small, Slow But Steady

Dec 16, 2022

1h 39m

★ 7.0

Overview

A hearing-impaired woman with dreams of becoming a professional boxer due to the pandemic is threatened closure of her boxing club and the illness of its ageing president, who has been her biggest supporter, push her to the limit.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Comme des Cinémas

Happinet Phantom Studios

Nagoya Broadcasting Network

The Asahi Shimbun

THEFOOL

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Cast

Keiko Ogawa

Yukino Kishii

Katsumi Sasaki

Tomokazu Miura

Makoto Hayashi

Masaki Miura

Shintaro Matsumoto

Shinichiro Matsuura

Seiji Ogawa

Himi Sato

Kiyomi Ogawa

Hiroko Nakajima

Chiharu Sasaki

Nobuko Sendo

Hana

Nana Nakahara

Reporter

Tomomitsu Adachi

Police officer

Yutaka Shimizu

Junior colleague

Jotaro Tozuka

Ryutaro

Ryutaro Yasumitsu

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