is a 2013 Japanese

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Azuma Morisaki was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Morisaki was born in Nagasaki Prefecture and graduated from Kyoto University. After editing the film magazine ''Jidai Eiga'', he joined the Shochiku studio in 1956. Moving from the Kyoto t ...

and based on a

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

by Yuichi Okano. It was released in Japan on November 16.

Cast

Harue Akagi was a Japanese actress. Filmography Films * '' Akō Rōshi: Ten no Maki, Chi no Maki'' (1956) * '' Magic Boy'' (1959) * ''Bushido, Samurai Saga'' (1963) * ''Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon'' (1974) * ''Nichiren'' (1979) * ''Pecoross' Mothe ...

as Mitsue Okano * Ryo Iwamatsu as Yuichi Okano * Kiwako Harada as Young Mitsue Okano *

Ryo Kase is a Japanese actor. Early life Kase was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture. He moved to Bellevue, Washington in the United States soon after his birth, due to his father's job being transferred. He's father Yutaka Kase was former chairman a ...

as Satoru Okano * Kensuke Owada as Masaki Okano *

Tomoyo Harada is a Japanese actress, singer, and lyricist, and was a popular idol in the 80's. She was cast in numerous films and TV-series since her beginning in 1982 in the leading role of the original TV series '' Sailorfuku to kikanju''. Her first role in ...

as Chieko *

Naoto Takenaka is a Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director from Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, affiliated with From First Production. He is married to idol singer and actress Midori Kinouchi. He is also known as the voice of Samuel L. Jac ...

as Honda *

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 of Akira Kurosawa. She won awards for best actress at the 10 ...

as Matsu *

Yoichi Nukumizu Please don't delete this article because this actor or actress is new and will play/is playing a lead, supporting or breakthrough role in the tokusatsu series "Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger" and will continue their career an ...

as Cafe owner *

Ryudo Uzaki is a Japanese musician, composer, and actor. His group, the Down Town Boogie-Woogie Band, was one of the most prominent 1970s Japanese rock music bands. He also composed many of Momoe Yamaguchi's songs with Yoko Aki. He is married to lyricist a ...

as Conductor *

Wakana Matsumoto is a Japanese actress from Tottori Prefecture. She portrayed Airi Nogami in the ''tokusatsu'' drama '' Kamen Rider Den-O''. Filmography Films * '' Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy'' (2010) * ''Pecoross' Mot ...

as Nursing home staff *

Nao Nagasawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress, former singer and model. She is known for her roles in various tokusatsu series, film, and drama, such as "Nanami Nono / Hurricane Blue" in the series Super Sentai ''Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger''. Filmograp ...

as Nursing home staff

Reception

Accolades

It was chosen as the best Japanese film of 2013 by the film

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s ''Eiga Geijutsu'' and ''

Kinema Junpo , 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 ...

''.

References

External links

* 2013 films 2013 drama films Live-action films based on manga Films directed by Azuma Morisaki Best Film Kinema Junpo Award winners Japanese drama films 2010s Japanese films {{2010s-Japan-film-stub