is a 2003 Japanese film directed by

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. At the 27th Japan Academy Prize it won three awards and received ten other nominations. The film is a remake of the TV mini series '' Ashura no Gotoku'' on

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Synopsis

The film follows four sisters who discover that their elderly father is having an affair. When a letter is published in the newspaper detailing the affair, they try to hide it from their mother, while suspecting each other of having written it.

Cast

Shinobu Otake is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for '' Railroad Man'', and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress for '' The Incident'', and Best Supporting Actress for ''Seishoku no ishibumi''. She ...

Eri Fukatsu is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 18th Yokohama Film Festival for '' Haru'' and the best actress award at the 2010 Montreal World Film Festival for her performance in ''Villain''. She also received acclaim for her r ...

Kaoru Yachigusa was a Japanese people, Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture. From 1947 to 1957, she was a member of the Takarazuka Revue. After leaving the revue, she was active in film, television, and Dubbing (filmmaking), narration. She famously quit part ...

* Shidou Nakamura

Awards and nominations

27th Japan Academy Prize. *Won:

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*Won: Best Screenplay - Tomomi Tsutsui *Won: Best Actress in a Supporting Role -

*Nominated: Best Picture *Nominated: Best Actress -

*Nominated: Best Actress in a Supporting Role -

*Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Shidou Nakamura *Nominated: Best Music -

Michiru Oshima Michiru (満, みちる, ミチル) is a Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, 1970s J-Pop artist *, Japanese composer *, Japanese pop singer and songwriter *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese anime scriptwriter *, Japane ...

*Nominated: Best Cinematography - Nobuyasu Kita *Nominated: Best Lighting Direction -

Koichi Watanabe Koichi Watanabe () (26 October 1980 - 7 April 2018), better known as Koichi Pettas or simply KOICHI, was a Japanese heavyweight kickboxer competing in K-1, It's Showtime and GLORY. Biography and career Koichi gained recognition fighting in or ...

*Nominated: Best Art Direction - Hidemitsu Yamasaki *Nominated: Best Sound Recording - Fumio Hashimoto *Nominated: Best Film Editing - Shinji Tanaka

References

External links

* 2003 films Films directed by Yoshimitsu Morita 2000s Japanese-language films Films scored by Michiru Ōshima 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub