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Until the Lights Come Back(2005)
Status: Released
Date: 2005-11-19
60%
6 Votes
Time: 2h 12m
Overview:
A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
Movie: Until the Lights Come Back
Top 10 Billed Cast
豊川悦司
Shinichi Kido
田畑智子
Nozomi Kanou
田口トモロヲ
Ryotaro Saeki
原田知世
Saeki's wife
吉川晃司
Gingi
寺島しのぶ
Reiko
井川遥
Misuzo
阿部力
Dong-Dong
本郷奏多
Shota
香椎由宇
Maiko
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