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Top 10 Billed Cast

Naoto Takenaka
竹中直人

Taiji Tonoyama

Keiko Oginome
荻野目慶子

Kimie

Hideko Yoshida
吉田日出子

Taiji's wife

Nobuko Otowa
乙羽信子

Okaji

Yasuhito Hida
緋田康人

Kei Satō

Kagetora Miura
三浦景虎

Kei Yamamoto

Yuriko Hirooka
広岡由里子

Yoshiko

Yûki Suzuki
Yûki Suzuki

Young Yoshiko

Hideyuki Kasahara
笠原秀幸

Yasuo

Kuriko Namino
波乃久里子

Liquor Store Housewife

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    The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

  • Release Date

    2000-12-02

  • Average

    8.5

  • Rating:

    4.3 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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