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• 8.0 Drama
• 2000-12-02
• 126 minutes mins

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

Starring:

Naoto Takenaka (Taiji Tonoyama) Keiko Oginome (Kimie) Hideko Yoshida (Taiji's wife) Nobuko Otowa (Okaji) Yasuhito Hida (Kei Satō) Kagetora Miura (Kei Yamamoto) Yuriko Hirooka (Yoshiko) Yûki Suzuki (Young Yoshiko) Hideyuki Kasahara (Yasuo) Kuriko Namino (Liquor Store Housewife)

Director:

Kaneto Shindō

Writer:

Kaneto Shindō