crime comedy film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by . It was released in Japan by
Toho
is a Japanese film, theatre production and distribution company. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside of Japan, it is best known as the producer an ...
on August 27, 2016.
Plot
Cast
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Shinobu Otake
is a Japanese actress. She has won three Japanese Academy Awards: the 2000 Best Actress award for '' Railroad Man'', and the 1979 awards for both Best Actress ('' The Incident'') and Best Supporting Actress (''Seishoku no ishibumi''). She also w ...
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Etsushi Toyokawa
is a Japanese actor.
Biography
Born in Yao, Osaka, he studied at Shimizudani High School
is a prestigious Japanese public co-educational senior high school (secondary school), located in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan.
Overview
Shimizudan ...
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Machiko Ono
is a Japanese actress.
Career
Born in a rural area of Nara Prefecture, Ono was spotted by the film director Naomi Kawase cleaning out the shoe boxes at her junior high school, and cast in the lead role in Kawase's '' Suzaku'', which earned the f ...
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Kyōko Hasegawa
is a Japanese model and actress. She is previously married to Haruichi Shindō, one of the members of the Japanese rock band Porno Graffitti.
On May 30, 2009 she gave birth to a boy. On January 25, 2012 she gave birth to a girl.
Appearances TV ...
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Asami Mizukawa
is a Japanese actress. She grew up in Ibaraki, Osaka.
She made her debut in 1996 at age 13 in an advertisement for Asahi Kasei's "Hebel Haus". In 2000, she won the ''Grand Prix'' at the “3rd Miss Tokyo Walker” competition (the first winner ...
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Shunsuke Kazama
is a Japanese actor and television personality affiliated with Johnny & Associates.
Biography
In 1997, when Kazama was in his second year of junior high school, he entered Johnny & Associates and started activities as a trainee. He made his debu ...
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Kimiko Yo
is a Japanese actress. She was given Best Supporting Actress awards at the 2004 and the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival ceremonies. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 32nd and at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize (film), Japan Academy ...
Satoru Matsuo
is a Japanese actor and voice actor, known for starring in ''Shin Godzilla
is a 2016 Japanese ''kaiju'' film directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, with a screenplay by Anno and visual effects by Higuchi. Produced by Toho Pictures a ...
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Asuka Hinoi
is a Japanese singer and actress.
Biography
Asuka's musical career began in 2002, when she was chosen with two other girls, Hikaru Koyama and Miho Hiroshige, to form the group LOVE & PEACE. Their song "Drifter" became the theme for the movi ...
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Zen Kajihara
, (in Japanese) is a Japanese theatre actor. Originally a member of the
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Masatō Ibu
is a Japanese actor and voice actor. He is sometimes credited as Masato Eve.
Filmography
Films
* ''Love Hotel'' (1985)
*''Maison Ikkoku'' (1986)
*''Empire of the Sun'' (1987) – Sgt. Nagata
*'' Sukeban Deka'' (1987)
*'' Toki o Kakeru Shōj ...
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Shigeru Izumiya
Shigeru Izumiya (泉谷 しげる ''Izumiya Shigeru'', born May 11, 1948 in Aomori, raised in Meguro, Tokyo) is a Japanese poet, folk singer, actor, tarento. He established the record company For Life Records with Takuro Yoshida, Yosui Inoue, and ...
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Akira Emoto
is a Japanese actor.
Career
In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''Dr. Akagi''. He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for ''Dotonbori River'' and '' Hearts and Flo ...
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Shōfukutei Tsurube II
, born , is a Japanese rakugo comedian and actor.
Filmography Film
*''Tokyo Heaven'' (1990)
*'' Moving'' (1993)
*'' Wait and See'' (1998)
*'' Kabei: Our Mother'' (2008) - Senkichi
*'' Dear Doctor'' (2009) - Dr. Osamu Ino
*'' About Her Brothe ...
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Masahiko Tsugawa
, born Masahiko Katō (加藤 雅彦 ''Katō Masahiko''; January 2, 1940 – August 4, 2018) was a Japanese actor and director.
Career
Tsugawa was born January 2, 1940, in Kyoto, Japan. After acting as a child, he made his major debut at the age o ...
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Masatoshi Nagase
is a Japanese actor. He is best known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's '' Cold Fever'' and Jim Jarmusch's ''Mystery Train''.
Nagase was described by Todd Brown of Twitch Film as "one of the great unsung heroes of Japane ...
Reception
The film was 4th placed at the Japanese box office on its opening weekend, with 182,555 admissions, and grossed .