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Masahiro Motoki | Daigo Kobayashi | |
Tsutomu Yamazaki | Ikuei Sasaki | |
Ryoko Hirosue | Mika Kobayashi | |
Kazuko Yoshiyuki | Tsuyako Yamashita | |
Kimiko Yo | Yuriko Kamimura | |
Takashi Sasano | Shokichi Hirata | |
Tetta Sugimoto | Yamashita | |
Tôru Minegishi | Yoshiki Kobayashi | |
Tatsuo Yamada | Togashi | |
Taro Ishida | Sonezaki | |
Sanae Miyata | Naomi Togashi | |
Ryôsuke Ohtani | Tomeo's father | |
Mitsuyo Hoshino | Kazuko Kobayashi |
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Producer | Toshiaki Nakazawa
Yasuhiro Mase |
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Writer | Kundo Koyama
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Cinematography | Takeshi Hamada
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Musician | Joe Hisaishi
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Freshly unemployed, young cellist Daigo (Masahiro Motoki) has an epiphany in which he realizes he's been heading down the wrong career path. Retreating to his hometown, he trains for a new professional role as a nakanshi, or one who prepares the dead for burial. Tsutomu Yamazaki provides comic relief as Daigo's eccentric mentor in director Yojiro Takita's Oscar-winning, richly detailed -- if unlikely -- drama about finding your bliss. |
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