is a 2002

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 ...

Cast

Kyōzō Nagatsuka is a Japanese actor. Career Nagatsuka made his film debut in ''Chinese in Paris'' while studying abroad at Sorbonne University. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yoko ...

as Ippei Kurasawa * Nene Ohtsuka as Ryoko Kurasawa *

Mickey Curtis is a Japanese actor, singer and media personality. He was born to English-Japanese parents. A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Mickey is considered one of the three big Japanese names in rock music, helping to popularize the genre in ...

as Kiichiro Aisawa *

Jun Kunimura is a Japanese actor who has performed in Cinema of Japan, Japan, the Cinema of the United States, United States, and Cinema of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He won Best Supporting Actor and the Popular Star Award at the 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards for ...

as Akio Yoshizumi * Kitarō as Kentaro Inamatsu * Shuzo Mitamura as Keiji Uzaki * Kumija Kim as Sakiko Inamatsu * Kaho Minami as Takako Motoyoshi *

Izumi Yukimura is a Japanese popular singer and actress. Yukimura made her debut with the song in 1953. Her style of singing varied from jazz to rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, and rock 'n' roll) is a Genre (music), ...

as Sanae Inamatsu

Awards

24th

Yokohama Film Festival The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, ...

*Won: Best Director -

*Won: Best Cinematography *Won: Best Actor -

*Won: Best Supporting Actress - Nene Otsuka *7th Best Film

References

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* * 2002 films Films directed by Hideyuki Hirayama 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub