is a 2010 Japanese drama film directed by

Kazuyoshi Kumakiri is a Japanese film director. Career Kumakiri debuted with ''Kichiku'' in 1997. His 2001 film, ''Hole in the Sky'', starred Susumu Terajima and Yuriko Kikuchi. His 2004 film, ''Green Mind, Metal Bats'', screened at the International Film Fest ...

and starring

Mitsuki Tanimura is a Japanese actress. Biography Tanimura was born in Sakai, Osaka. She starred in Akihiko Shiota's ''Canary'' and Norio Tsuruta's ''Orochi''. She has also appeared in films such as Takashi Miike's '' God's Puzzle'', Junji Sakamoto's '' Str ...

and

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 ...

Cast

as Honami Ikawa * Pistol Takehara as Futa Ikawa *

as Haruo Meguro * Masaki Miura as Hiroshi Hagiya * Takashi Yamanaka as Makoto Kudou * Kaoru Kobayashi as Ryuzo Hika *

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as Haruyo Hika

Release

The film had its world premiere at the

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in 2010. It was released in Japan on 18 December 2010.

Reception

Dustin Chang of

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felt that the film "resembles strongly of the neo-neo realism of the

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' films but without their sense of hope". Meanwhile, Maggie Lee of ''

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'' noted Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's "low key but tender depictions of working class people and subtle assimilation of socio-economical realities, redolent of the works of

Jia Zhangke Jia Zhangke ( zh, c=贾樟柯, p=Jiǎ Zhāngkē, born 24 May 1970) .He is a Chinese-language film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and writer. He is the dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media College and the dea ...

and Wang Bing's '' West of the Tracks''".

References

External links

* * * 2010 films 2010 drama films Japanese drama films Films directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri 2010s Japanese films {{2010s-Japan-film-stub