is a 1997

Japanese film 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 fourth largest by number of feature films produced, producing 634 fi ...

directed by

Jun Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was first a director of television commercials before adding filmmaking to his creative activities. His most famous film outside Japan is '' Tony Takitani'', an adaptation of a short story by Har ...

Plot

Cast

* Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Koichi Hamanaka *

Kaori Momoi is a Japanese actress. Life and career Momoi was born in Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 12, she traveled to London to study dance at the Royal Ballet Academy. After three years, she returned to Tokyo. She graduated from Japan's Bungakuza School ...

as Tami Ohsawa *

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 Hisako Hamanaka * Satoko Abe as Tomomi Ito * Kyoko Asagiri as Tami's step mother * Tokue Hanazawa as Asakura's father *Koba Hayashi as Hamanaka's father *

Takaya Kamikawa is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. Biography Kamikawa was born in Hachioji, Tokyo in 1965. He graduated from Hachioji-Kita high school in Tokyo. While studying economics in Chuo University, he acted in a minor theatrical group whi ...

as Sadaji Asakawa *Reiko Nanao as Hamanaka's mother *Akira Oizumi as Tomomi's father

Awards and nominations

22nd

Hochi Film Award The are film-specific prizes awarded by the '' Hochi Shimbun''. Categories *Best Picture *Best International Picture *Best Animated Picture (since 2017) *Best Actor *Best Actress *Best Supporting Actor *Best Supporting Actress *Best New Artist ...

* Won: Best Supporting Actress -

40th

Blue Ribbon Awards The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan, established in 1950 by , established under the name of the "Association of Tokyo Film Journalists Award", which was formed mainly by film reporters from th ...

* Won: Best Actress -

* Won: Best Supporting Actress - Mitsuko Baisho

Kinema Junpo Awards , commonly called , is Japan's oldest film magazine and began publication in July 1919. It was first published three times a month, using the Japanese ''Jun'' (旬) system of dividing months into three parts, but the postwar ''Kinema Junpō'' ha ...

* Won: Best Actress - Kaori Momoi * Won: Best Supporting Actress - Mitsuko Baisho

Mainichi Film Awards The are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by '' Mainichi Shimbun'' (毎日新聞), one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of ...

* Won: Best Actress - Kaori Momoi * Won: Best Supporting Actress - Mitsuko Baisho

References

External links

* 1997 films Films directed by Jun Ichikawa 1990s Japanese-language films 1990s Japanese films {{1990s-Japan-film-stub