''Going My Home'' ( ja, ゴーイングマイホーム) is a 2012 Japanese

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, directed by

Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including '' Nobody Knows'' (2004), '' Still Walking'' (2008), and '' After the Storm'' ( ...

and featuring

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. The elderly father of a family collapses and lies in a

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. While waiting for him to recover, the family learns and investigates about his life, in particular his romantic affairs.

Cast

* Hiroshi Abe: as Tsuboi Ryota *

Tomoko Yamaguchi is a Japanese actress, Voice acting in Japan, voice actress and singer from Tochigi, Tochigi, Tochigi. She is the lead actress for the classic dorama series Long Vacation, starring alongside Takuya Kimura. She has been married to Toshiaki Karasa ...

: Tsuboi Sae *

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: as Ito Takiko *

Aoi Miyazaki is a Japanese actress. She is known for her roles in ''Nana'' and '' Virgin Snow''. Career Miyazaki started working in the entertainment industry at the age of four. Initially she appeared mostly in commercials, magazine advertisements, and a ...

: Shimojima Naho *

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: Sanada Shun * Ken Yasuda: Ito Kenji *

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: Kobayashi Satoru *

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: Tsuboi Eisuke *

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: Tokunaga Taro *

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: Tsuboi Toshiko *

Toshiyuki Nishida is a Japanese actor. He has won two Japanese Academy Awards for best actor, for ''The Silk Road'' (1988) and ''Tsuribaka Nisshi 6'' (1993). He has also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for '' Get Up!'' and '' Tsuribaka Nisshi 14'' (2003) ...

: Torii Osamu *

Aju Makita is a Japanese actress. Career Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Makita made her acting debut at age 7. In 2012, she appeared in the TV drama '' Going My Home'' directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda and has since acted in his films '' After the Storm'' (2016) ...

: Tsuboi Moe *

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as Tsuji Tokiko *

Noriko Eguchi is a Japanese film and television actress. She became a student in the theater troupe Tokyo Kandenchi in 2000, and made her film debut in 2002 with Takashi Miike's ''Shangri-La''. She had her first starring role in Yuki Tanada's '' Moon and Cherry ...

as Tsutsumi * Yasuhi Nakamura as Hatakenaka * Takashi Yamanaka as Kai

Plot

After his father's collapse and admission to hospital in a coma in a small country town, Tsuboi Ryota (

) and his family gather around the stricken father in the hospital, travelling there regularly from Tokyo. Following their discovery of an unknown woman visiting him, the family begins their own investigation into their father's life. Ryota is a successful advertising agency executive and married to "food stylist" Sae ( Yamaguchi Tomoko), who has her own cooking TV show. Their daughter has issues at school, imagining friends and causing trouble. Ryota finds himself investigating his father's life in the tiny country town where his father collapsed. Ryota, while investigating his father, Eisuke's (Isao Natsuyagi) past, also has to deal with his own issues at the agency where he works, and with his wife and problems with his daughter. After some investigation, Ryota discovers the mysterious woman Naho (Aoi Miyazaki) to be the daughter of the best friend of her father (the town dentist Tori, ( Nishida Toshiyuki), who grew up together. The two shared the love of a girl who they grew up, the mother of Naho. While staying at the town, Ryota and his daughter begins to find out about its odd ways, in particular, with the town's belief in the local legendary Kuna creatures. After finding a tiny hat apparently belonging to one of the creatures, Ryota becomes fascinated with them, and gets his work involved in a hunt for them. Ryota and the townspeople finally organise an event based around hunting for the creatures, and Ryota appears to see one. Eisuke dies, and Ryota comes to terms with his problematic relationship with his father.

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*{{imdb title, 2185380 2012 Japanese television series debuts Television shows set in Nagano Prefecture