The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre's 13th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival will be held from June 6th to 20th at the Jccc's Kobayashi Hall. The festival has now grown into one of the largest film events of its kind in the world and is recognized by the Japanese film industry as a vital conduit for bringing Japanese film to the world.
TorontoJFF is programmed to reflect the rich diversity of the world 4th largest film industry and the 2024 edition will feature 24 films including the International Premieres of Kosai Sekine's mystery drama Stay Mum「かくしごと 」starring Anne Watanabe and Eiji Okuda and Toshiyuki Teruya's heartwarming Okinawa-based comedy Kanasando「かなさんどー 」. The festival is also very proud to present the World Premiere of Alice Il Shin's Landscapes Of Home 「故郷の風景」 from producer Eiko Kawabe Brown. The film is an investigation of Japanese Canadian struggle from a new perspective redefining...
TorontoJFF is programmed to reflect the rich diversity of the world 4th largest film industry and the 2024 edition will feature 24 films including the International Premieres of Kosai Sekine's mystery drama Stay Mum「かくしごと 」starring Anne Watanabe and Eiji Okuda and Toshiyuki Teruya's heartwarming Okinawa-based comedy Kanasando「かなさんどー 」. The festival is also very proud to present the World Premiere of Alice Il Shin's Landscapes Of Home 「故郷の風景」 from producer Eiko Kawabe Brown. The film is an investigation of Japanese Canadian struggle from a new perspective redefining...
- 4/26/2024
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Films about cults, although a phenomenon that has tormented particularly countries like Japan and Korea, are not exactly so common, despite the fact that some great titles, as in the case of “Rebirth” by Izuru Narushima do exist. Choi Jeong-min, in his fourth feature, tries to fill this gap with a film that aims at presenting the phenomenon as realistically as possible, although retaining its dramatic premise from beginning to end.
Myeong-seon defected from North Korea with blind, elderly Sin-taek, the leader of the Hwashin Church who worship the God of Light and insist that they can resurrect dead people. Myeong-seon is actually in with Sin-take for this reason, since her son died a while ago and she believes the man can resurrect him. The two live a rather hard life, in a rundown house, with the girl working in a restaurant, trying to attract more people into the cult,...
Myeong-seon defected from North Korea with blind, elderly Sin-taek, the leader of the Hwashin Church who worship the God of Light and insist that they can resurrect dead people. Myeong-seon is actually in with Sin-take for this reason, since her son died a while ago and she believes the man can resurrect him. The two live a rather hard life, in a rundown house, with the girl working in a restaurant, trying to attract more people into the cult,...
- 1/14/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Lou Ye’s embattled 2019 film “Saturday Fiction” will have a theatrical outing in the Chinese auteur’s home country nearly two years after its planned high-profile premiere there was abruptly cancelled.
After its long time in the dark, the black-and-white drama will return triumphantly to the official limelight as the closing film of the Beijing Intl. Film Festival on Sept. 10, then go on to light up Chinese theaters Oct. 15. Its star, the iconic Gong Li, is this year’s chairman of the international jury for the festival’s top Tiantan Awards.
“Saturday Film” originally debuted in competition at Venice in 2019 and was set to premiere in China soon after as the opening film of the country’s highly politicized government-run Golden Rooster Film Festival. It was yanked without warning from the line-up the night before due to unspecified “internal production problems” and replaced by a low-budget documentary about traditional bamboo flutes.
After its long time in the dark, the black-and-white drama will return triumphantly to the official limelight as the closing film of the Beijing Intl. Film Festival on Sept. 10, then go on to light up Chinese theaters Oct. 15. Its star, the iconic Gong Li, is this year’s chairman of the international jury for the festival’s top Tiantan Awards.
“Saturday Film” originally debuted in competition at Venice in 2019 and was set to premiere in China soon after as the opening film of the country’s highly politicized government-run Golden Rooster Film Festival. It was yanked without warning from the line-up the night before due to unspecified “internal production problems” and replaced by a low-budget documentary about traditional bamboo flutes.
- 9/10/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Gong Li heads the jury of the international competition, which also includes Nadine Labaki, Renny Harlin and Leste Chen.
Beijing International Film Festival (Bjiff), which is scheduled to take place in a physical format next month (August 14-21), has unveiled the line-up for its international competition section, the Tiantan Awards.
The 15-title selection includes Russian co-production Conference, which won best director and actress at last year’s Cairo film festival; Rotterdam Youth Jury Award winner Night Of The Kings; Indian director Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show; and Cannes 2020 Label entry Slalom, directed by Charlene Favier (see full list below...
Beijing International Film Festival (Bjiff), which is scheduled to take place in a physical format next month (August 14-21), has unveiled the line-up for its international competition section, the Tiantan Awards.
The 15-title selection includes Russian co-production Conference, which won best director and actress at last year’s Cairo film festival; Rotterdam Youth Jury Award winner Night Of The Kings; Indian director Pan Nalin’s Last Film Show; and Cannes 2020 Label entry Slalom, directed by Charlene Favier (see full list below...
- 7/21/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Although not as frequently as the Koreans, Japanese still manage to turn up a number of crime films, mostly based on the plethora of novels of the genre that are published in the country, as much as on actual stories. The Yakuza theme, that was so common in Japanese cinema during the previous decades, is no longer at large and organized crime has given its place to the individual one; however, the quality has not deteriorated at the least, and as we are about to see in the list below, a number of masterpieces of the category are still being shot.
With a focus on diversity, here are 20 great Japanese films, in chronological order, where crime is the main element of the story.
1. Late Bloomer
Go Shibata presents a film concerning inability that keeps its distance from the common triumph stories typically shot regarding this topic. Instead, “Late Bloomer” focuses...
With a focus on diversity, here are 20 great Japanese films, in chronological order, where crime is the main element of the story.
1. Late Bloomer
Go Shibata presents a film concerning inability that keeps its distance from the common triumph stories typically shot regarding this topic. Instead, “Late Bloomer” focuses...
- 4/25/2021
- by AMP Group
- AsianMoviePulse
Epic movies are usually associated with “heroes”, and concepts like war, organized crime, history and fantasy. Izuru Narashima in “Rebirth” however, proves that a family drama can also reach the levels of an epic, in a movie the Japanese Academy honored with 11 awards, essentially declaring it “Movie of the Year” for 2013.
Rebirth is screening at Japan Society
The script is based on the novel “Youkame no Semi” by Mitsuyo Kakuta, and revolves mostly around the story of two women. Kiwako Nonomiya retains an enduring relationship with Takehiro Akiyama, a married man who has promised her that eventually he will leave his wife, Etsuko, and live with her. At some point, Kiwako gets pregnant and he convinces her to have an abortion, and, in a sad twist, the procedure causes her permanent infertility.
Sometime after that, Etsuko learns about her husband’s relationship and the aforementioned incident and confronts the woman,...
Rebirth is screening at Japan Society
The script is based on the novel “Youkame no Semi” by Mitsuyo Kakuta, and revolves mostly around the story of two women. Kiwako Nonomiya retains an enduring relationship with Takehiro Akiyama, a married man who has promised her that eventually he will leave his wife, Etsuko, and live with her. At some point, Kiwako gets pregnant and he convinces her to have an abortion, and, in a sad twist, the procedure causes her permanent infertility.
Sometime after that, Etsuko learns about her husband’s relationship and the aforementioned incident and confronts the woman,...
- 2/8/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
A still from “Unforgiven”
Twelve new Japanese films will be screened at the upcoming 44th International Film Festival of India, which is to be held in Goa, from November 20 to 30, 2013 as Japan will be the “country in focus”.
In addition, press conferences will be held with directors and producers in attendance.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of Real; Sang-il Lee, director of Unforgiven; Keiichi Hara and Yoshitaka Ishizuka; director and producer respectively of Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story have been invited to attend the festival.
The following twelve Japanese films will be screened:
1. Real, director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2013/127 min)
2. Unforgiven, director: Sang-il Lee (2013/135 min)
3. Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story, director: Keiichi Hara (2013/96 min)
4. Oshin, director: Shin Togashi(2013/109 min)
5. The Devil’s Path, director: Kazuya Shiraishi(2013/128 min)
6. Recipes of Diet Diaries,director: Toshio Lee (2013/100 min)
7. Rebirth, director: Izuru Narushima (2011/147 min)
8. The Garden of Words,director: Makoto Shinkai(2013/46 min)
9. Wolf Children,...
Twelve new Japanese films will be screened at the upcoming 44th International Film Festival of India, which is to be held in Goa, from November 20 to 30, 2013 as Japan will be the “country in focus”.
In addition, press conferences will be held with directors and producers in attendance.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director of Real; Sang-il Lee, director of Unforgiven; Keiichi Hara and Yoshitaka Ishizuka; director and producer respectively of Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story have been invited to attend the festival.
The following twelve Japanese films will be screened:
1. Real, director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2013/127 min)
2. Unforgiven, director: Sang-il Lee (2013/135 min)
3. Dawn of a Filmmaker: The Keisuke Kinoshita Story, director: Keiichi Hara (2013/96 min)
4. Oshin, director: Shin Togashi(2013/109 min)
5. The Devil’s Path, director: Kazuya Shiraishi(2013/128 min)
6. Recipes of Diet Diaries,director: Toshio Lee (2013/100 min)
7. Rebirth, director: Izuru Narushima (2011/147 min)
8. The Garden of Words,director: Makoto Shinkai(2013/46 min)
9. Wolf Children,...
- 11/18/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Director: Izuru Narushima. Review: Adam Wing. After witnessing Michael Bay’s bombastic retelling of the attack on Pearl Harbour, it’s refreshing to watch events unfold from a Japanese perspective. The Japanese Navy was opposed to siding with Germany but Yamamoto had hoped that the attack on Pearl Harbour would allow them to sue for peace, as they had with Russia some time before. An early end to the war was Yamamoto’s aim, and he demanded that a warning be sent to America before the infamous attack. “When Japanese samurai strike an enemy at night, at least they kick the pillow to awaken him first. If we attack before a final warning is delivered, the Japanese Navy’s name will be ruined.” As we were soon to discover, that warning arrived too late, and the inevitability of war swooped down from the skies above. Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku is known...
- 9/24/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
War films might perhaps not everyone’s bag, but Izuru Narushima’s epic The Admiral (aka ‘Admiral Yamamoto’) brings more to the table than just all out war with a back narrative following Yamamoto’s deep misgiving about organising a sneak attack on pearl Harbour in WWII. The Admiral arrives on Blu-ray and DVD via Cine Asia on Sept 24. Synopsis: Japan, 1941: With war raging in Europe, Japan’s imperial command sees an opportunity to advance their nation’s standing in the world. The plan to attack Pearl Harbour was drawn up, and one man was tasked with its implementation: Admiral Yamamoto. Opposed to the plan, Yamamoto must nevertheless carry out his orders and commit one of the biggest military mistakes in history. The Admiral trailer...
- 9/22/2012
- 24framespersecond.net
On Sunday, the awards for the 3rd Nippon Theater Staff Film Festival were presented to the winners at a ceremony in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The awards are voted on by cinema staff members from all over Japan.
Mao Inoue took home the award for Best Actress for her performance in Izuru Narushima’s Rebirth (Youkame no Semi), playing a woman who’s forced to deal with her unusual upbringing, having been kidnapped as an infant.
Masami Nagasawa took home the Best Supporting Actress award for Love Strikes! (Moteki), but she was unable to attend due to her filming schedule. In a written statement, she referred to her immersion in the world of film as a “blissful time”.
The big winner was Koki Mitani’s comedy A Ghost of a Chance, which was responsible for three separate awards - Best Movie, Best Director, and Best Supporting actor.
Here’s the full list...
Mao Inoue took home the award for Best Actress for her performance in Izuru Narushima’s Rebirth (Youkame no Semi), playing a woman who’s forced to deal with her unusual upbringing, having been kidnapped as an infant.
Masami Nagasawa took home the Best Supporting Actress award for Love Strikes! (Moteki), but she was unable to attend due to her filming schedule. In a written statement, she referred to her immersion in the world of film as a “blissful time”.
The big winner was Koki Mitani’s comedy A Ghost of a Chance, which was responsible for three separate awards - Best Movie, Best Director, and Best Supporting actor.
Here’s the full list...
- 4/22/2012
- Nippon Cinema
The full trailer Izuru Narushima’s Rebirth (Youkame no Semi) has been released via the Yahoo! Japan Shochiku channel. The film is an adaptation of a novel by Mitsuyo Kakuta which was previously adapted as a TV drama which aired on Nhk back in April.
Hiromi Nagasaku plays a woman name Kiwako who has an affair with a married man. Kiwako is unable to conceive, so when her lover’s wife gives birth to a daughter, she kidnaps the baby and takes off. After four years living happily as a mother, she’s arrested and the child, Erina, is taken away from her. Years later, Erina (now played by Mao Inoue) is a university student who’s grown up resenting her true parents. Soon, she has an affair of her own and ends up getting pregnant with a baby boy. In order to learn more herself, she decides to retrace...
Hiromi Nagasaku plays a woman name Kiwako who has an affair with a married man. Kiwako is unable to conceive, so when her lover’s wife gives birth to a daughter, she kidnaps the baby and takes off. After four years living happily as a mother, she’s arrested and the child, Erina, is taken away from her. Years later, Erina (now played by Mao Inoue) is a university student who’s grown up resenting her true parents. Soon, she has an affair of her own and ends up getting pregnant with a baby boy. In order to learn more herself, she decides to retrace...
- 2/16/2011
- Nippon Cinema
The first teaser for Izuru Narushima’s Youkame no Semi has been released via the Yahoo! Japan Shochiku channel. The film is an adaptation of a novel by Mitsuyo Kakuta which was previously adapted as a TV drama which aired on Nhk back in April.
Hiromi Nagasaku plays a woman name Kiwako who has an affair with a married man. Kiwako is unable to conceive, so when her lover’s wife gives birth to a daughter, she kidnaps the baby and takes off. After four years living happily as a mother, she’s arrested and the child, Erina, is taken away from her. Years later, Erina (now played by Mao Inoue) is a university student who’s grown up resenting her true parents. Soon, she has an affair of her own and ends up getting pregnant with a baby boy.
Shochiku will be releasing “Youkame no Semi” in Japan sometime next year.
Hiromi Nagasaku plays a woman name Kiwako who has an affair with a married man. Kiwako is unable to conceive, so when her lover’s wife gives birth to a daughter, she kidnaps the baby and takes off. After four years living happily as a mother, she’s arrested and the child, Erina, is taken away from her. Years later, Erina (now played by Mao Inoue) is a university student who’s grown up resenting her true parents. Soon, she has an affair of her own and ends up getting pregnant with a baby boy.
Shochiku will be releasing “Youkame no Semi” in Japan sometime next year.
- 12/6/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Earlier this week, an 85-second trailer was added to the official website for Izuru Narushima‘s A Lone Scalpel, an upcoming film based on a medical-themed novel written by real-life doctor Toshihiko Oogane. Oogane’s stories were first told through the 1989 manga “Mesu yo Kagayake!!” which was serialized in Business Jump for four years. His own novelization would not be released until 2005. In 2007, the novel was drastically revised and re-released as six volumes focusing on a wide array of the moral conundrums faced by doctors on a daily basis.
The film is set in 1989 and revolves around a gifted surgeon Named Toma Tetsuhiko (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who’s hired by a city hospital. While there, he’s forced to take a stand against the rampant corruption in the medical field as well as the callous decisions of uncaring doctors. Meanwhile, the mayor falls ill and a controversial decision must be made...
The film is set in 1989 and revolves around a gifted surgeon Named Toma Tetsuhiko (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who’s hired by a city hospital. While there, he’s forced to take a stand against the rampant corruption in the medical field as well as the callous decisions of uncaring doctors. Meanwhile, the mayor falls ill and a controversial decision must be made...
- 4/25/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Really just to be able to type Chuck Norris’ name was reason enough to bring up the news of a trailer for the sugary pop of Love Fight, a film that looks to make your eyes water as that sugar goodness invades your taste buds.
Kevin over at NipponCinema started it :::pointing accusing finger::: and is hosting the trailer for what appears to be your usual teen love story, but with boxing and kicking gags to boot! I’ll let his description play it out for you.
The movie is based on a novel by Eri Makino called “Seibo Shojo”. Izuru Narushima (Midnight Eagle) directed and Takao Osawa (also Midnight Eagle) served the dual role of supporting actor and producer. The story involves a boy named Minoru (Kento Hayashi) who’s always been a bit of a weakling. Throughout his childhood his spunky female friend Aki (Kie Kitano) watched out...
Kevin over at NipponCinema started it :::pointing accusing finger::: and is hosting the trailer for what appears to be your usual teen love story, but with boxing and kicking gags to boot! I’ll let his description play it out for you.
The movie is based on a novel by Eri Makino called “Seibo Shojo”. Izuru Narushima (Midnight Eagle) directed and Takao Osawa (also Midnight Eagle) served the dual role of supporting actor and producer. The story involves a boy named Minoru (Kento Hayashi) who’s always been a bit of a weakling. Throughout his childhood his spunky female friend Aki (Kie Kitano) watched out...
- 9/1/2008
- by Mack
- Screen Anarchy
Tokyo International Film Festival
TOKYO -- Midnight Eagle, the Opening Film of Tokyo International Film Festival directed by Izuru Narushima, flies on the wings of marketing clout by its producer Shochiku and financier Universal Pictures Japan.
With Yasuo Hasegawa as co-scriptwriter, the film borrows elements from his two previous screenplays Whiteout and Aegis. Like the former, Midnight Eagle sets its action within a visually stunning backdrop of blinding blizzards on high altitudes. And like the latter, it is also a spy thriller that fuels Japanese anxiety about the North Korean nuclear threat. A few Asian countries including South Korea and Hong Kong have bought the film, and US release has also been confirmed.
Yet, for an action suspense movie, Midnight Eagle has plenty of panoramic shots of snowcapped mountains, but precious little action. Weighed down by inept direction, droning dialogue and a heavy-handed political agenda, winning audience popularity may still be an uphill hike.
"Midnight Eagle's" protagonist Yuji Nishizaki (Takao Ozawa) is a war photographer who has become so sick of the battlefield that he returns home to Japan's Northern Alps to aim his lens at stars, while letting his wife pine away her life and leaving his son to the care of journalist sister-in-law Keiko (Yuko Takeuchi)
Ironically, he discovers a military crisis in his own backyard, when a plane crash is captured on one of his stellar snapshots. The plane turns out to be a US stealth bomber code named Midnight Eagle which carries a deadly nuclear weapon. Earlier, the US base in Yokota was trespassed by enemy agents. While the prime minister and his cabinet try to crisis manage without help from America (a point emphasized strongly in the film), Nishizaki's college alumni, reporter Ichiro Ochiai, drags him back to the site to get the scoop of his life. Ochiai has also tipped Keiko's boss on the case, and she is sent on the trail of escaped secret agent Hirata. By now the mountain is swarming with infiltrators with their eyes on the bomber. Nishizaki and Ochiai find themselves allied with Maj. Saeki, the sole survivor from a unit dispatched by Japan's Self-Defense Force on a mission to save the nation.
It may be cliched but an action movie won't rock without a strong villain for the hero to face off. In Midnight Eagle, the enemy spies are covered head to toe in white ski-suits and masks, looking completely indistinguishable from the good guys of the Self-Defense Force. How they got into the country so easily is never explained, and it doesn't reflect well on Japan's reconnaissance system. Worse still, their nationality is not even disclosed though Japanese audiences will immediately see through the reference to "the Peninsular" as North Korea. For an overseas audience, this is frustratingly elliptical and makes it hard to identify with the protagonists.
The main cast, usually watchable in the hands of other directors, have a narrow range of emotions to work with. From Nishizaki's son to the cabinet, everyone wears a worried expression throughout.
For pacifist liberals, this film may feel like a public relations campaign to recruit members of the Self-Defense Force as the protagonist's righteous indignation against the inhumanity of war eventually morphs into a justification for the use of napalm.
MIDNIGHT EAGLE
Shochiku Co./Universal Pictures/Geneon Entertainment/TV Asahi/Asahi Broadcasting Corp./M-Tere (Nagoya TV)/Hokkaido TV/Niigata TV 21/Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting Co. Ltd/Imagica/Unsen/Destiny
Crew:_Director: Izuru Narushima
Writer: Yasuo Hasegawa, Kenzaburo Iida
Based on the novel by: Tetsuo Takashima
Producers: Shohei Kotaki, Kanjiro Sakura
Director ofÅ@photography: Hideo Yamamoto
Production designer: Hajime Oikawa
Music: Takeshi Kobayashi
Editor: William Anderson
Cast:
Yuji Nishizaki: Takao Osawa
Keiko Arisawa: Yuko Takeuchi
Shinichiro Ochiai: Hiroshi Tamaki
Akihiko Saeki: Eisaku Yoshida
Prime Minister Watarase: Tatsuya Fuji
Running time -- 131 minutes
No MPAA rating...
TOKYO -- Midnight Eagle, the Opening Film of Tokyo International Film Festival directed by Izuru Narushima, flies on the wings of marketing clout by its producer Shochiku and financier Universal Pictures Japan.
With Yasuo Hasegawa as co-scriptwriter, the film borrows elements from his two previous screenplays Whiteout and Aegis. Like the former, Midnight Eagle sets its action within a visually stunning backdrop of blinding blizzards on high altitudes. And like the latter, it is also a spy thriller that fuels Japanese anxiety about the North Korean nuclear threat. A few Asian countries including South Korea and Hong Kong have bought the film, and US release has also been confirmed.
Yet, for an action suspense movie, Midnight Eagle has plenty of panoramic shots of snowcapped mountains, but precious little action. Weighed down by inept direction, droning dialogue and a heavy-handed political agenda, winning audience popularity may still be an uphill hike.
"Midnight Eagle's" protagonist Yuji Nishizaki (Takao Ozawa) is a war photographer who has become so sick of the battlefield that he returns home to Japan's Northern Alps to aim his lens at stars, while letting his wife pine away her life and leaving his son to the care of journalist sister-in-law Keiko (Yuko Takeuchi)
Ironically, he discovers a military crisis in his own backyard, when a plane crash is captured on one of his stellar snapshots. The plane turns out to be a US stealth bomber code named Midnight Eagle which carries a deadly nuclear weapon. Earlier, the US base in Yokota was trespassed by enemy agents. While the prime minister and his cabinet try to crisis manage without help from America (a point emphasized strongly in the film), Nishizaki's college alumni, reporter Ichiro Ochiai, drags him back to the site to get the scoop of his life. Ochiai has also tipped Keiko's boss on the case, and she is sent on the trail of escaped secret agent Hirata. By now the mountain is swarming with infiltrators with their eyes on the bomber. Nishizaki and Ochiai find themselves allied with Maj. Saeki, the sole survivor from a unit dispatched by Japan's Self-Defense Force on a mission to save the nation.
It may be cliched but an action movie won't rock without a strong villain for the hero to face off. In Midnight Eagle, the enemy spies are covered head to toe in white ski-suits and masks, looking completely indistinguishable from the good guys of the Self-Defense Force. How they got into the country so easily is never explained, and it doesn't reflect well on Japan's reconnaissance system. Worse still, their nationality is not even disclosed though Japanese audiences will immediately see through the reference to "the Peninsular" as North Korea. For an overseas audience, this is frustratingly elliptical and makes it hard to identify with the protagonists.
The main cast, usually watchable in the hands of other directors, have a narrow range of emotions to work with. From Nishizaki's son to the cabinet, everyone wears a worried expression throughout.
For pacifist liberals, this film may feel like a public relations campaign to recruit members of the Self-Defense Force as the protagonist's righteous indignation against the inhumanity of war eventually morphs into a justification for the use of napalm.
MIDNIGHT EAGLE
Shochiku Co./Universal Pictures/Geneon Entertainment/TV Asahi/Asahi Broadcasting Corp./M-Tere (Nagoya TV)/Hokkaido TV/Niigata TV 21/Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting Co. Ltd/Imagica/Unsen/Destiny
Crew:_Director: Izuru Narushima
Writer: Yasuo Hasegawa, Kenzaburo Iida
Based on the novel by: Tetsuo Takashima
Producers: Shohei Kotaki, Kanjiro Sakura
Director ofÅ@photography: Hideo Yamamoto
Production designer: Hajime Oikawa
Music: Takeshi Kobayashi
Editor: William Anderson
Cast:
Yuji Nishizaki: Takao Osawa
Keiko Arisawa: Yuko Takeuchi
Shinichiro Ochiai: Hiroshi Tamaki
Akihiko Saeki: Eisaku Yoshida
Prime Minister Watarase: Tatsuya Fuji
Running time -- 131 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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