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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
ese film directed by
Hideyuki Hirayama
is a Japanese film director. His theatrical debut was the film '' Maria's Stomach'' in 1990. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for '' The Games Teachers Play'' in 1992. In 1995, '' School Ghost Stories'' was a big hit and m ...
based upon
Natsuo Kirino's 1997
novel of the same name. It was Japan's official submission for
Best Foreign Language Film at the
75th Academy Awards
The 75th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 23, 2003, at the Dolby Theatre, Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AM ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
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Mieko Harada
is a Japanese actress. She has played various roles in many films and Japanese television drama series since 1974.
Career
Harada most notably portrayed Lady Kaede in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film '' Ran'', and further collaborated with him in h ...
as Masako Katori
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Mitsuko Baisho
is a Japanese actress whose most internationally known work has been for director Shohei Imamura, from 1979 up to the director's final film in 2010. Baisho has also appeared in films directed by Akira Kurosawa. She won awards for best actress at ...
as Yoshie Azuma
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Shigeru Muroi
is a Japanese actress. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 19th Hochi Film Awards for '' Izakaya Yūrei''. She is known for her role as Reiko Onda on Yappari Neko ga Suki series. she also starred in two television drama series ...
as Kuniko Jonouchi
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Naomi Nishida
is a Japanese actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress award at the 2001 Yokohama Film Festival and at the 25th Hochi Film Award for her performance in ''Nabbie's Love''.
Personal life
She married a Japanese shoe designer in 2005, and gave ...
as Yayoi Yamamoto
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Teruyuki Kagawa
is a Japanese actor, kabuki actor (as ), and boxing commentator. Unlike most other Kabuki actors in his family (such as his father Ichikawa En'ō II and his cousin Ichikawa Ennosuke IV) who play both male and female roles, he is a ''tachiyaku' ...
as Akira Jumonji
* Kanpei Hazama as Mitsuyoshi Satake
See also
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Cinema of Japan
The , also known domestically as , has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2022, it was the Film industry#Statistics, fourth largest by number of feature films p ...
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List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
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Films based on Japanese novels
Films directed by Hideyuki Hirayama
2000s Japanese-language films
2002 films
2000s Japanese films
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