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Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

ese film directed by

Hideyuki Hirayama is a Japanese film director. His theatrical debut was the film ''Maria's Stomach'' in 1990. He won the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for ''The Games Teachers Play'' in 1992. In 1995, ''School Ghost Stories'' was a big hit and made ...

Cast

Kyōzō Nagatsuka is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best actor at the 24th Yokohama Film Festival for ''The Laughing Frog is a 2002 Japanese film directed by Hideyuki Hirayama. Cast * Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Ippei Kurasawa * Nene Ohtsuka as Ryoko Kurasa ...

as Ippei Kurasawa * Nene Ohtsuka as Ryoko Kurasawa *

Mickey Curtis is a Japanese actor, singer and Media Personality. He was born to English-Japanese parents. A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Mickey is considered one of the three big Japanese names in rock music, helping to popularize the genre in ...

as Kiichiro Aisawa *

Jun Kunimura is a Japanese actor who has performed in Japan, Hollywood and Hong Kong. He won Best Supporting Actor and the Popular Star Award at the 37th Blue Dragon Film Awards for his performance in the South Korean horror film '' The Wailing'', directed ...

as Akio Yoshizumi * Kitarō as Kentaro Inamatsu * Shuzo Mitamura as Keiji Uzaki * Kumija Kim as Sakiko Inamatsu *

Kaho Minami is a Japanese actress of Korean descent active in film, television and commercials. Life and career Kaho Minami was born on January 20, 1964, in Amagasaki in Hyogo, Japan, and is of third-generation Korean descent. She graduated from Toho Ga ...

as Takako Motoyoshi *

Izumi Yukimura is a Japanese popular singer and actress. Yukimura made her debut with the song in 1953. Her style of singing varied from jazz to rock and roll. She became one of the three most popular female singers in the early postwar Japan, along with Chie ...

as Sanae Inamatsu

Awards

24th

Yokohama Film Festival The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, ...

*Won: Best Director -

*Won: Best Cinematography *Won: Best Actor -

*Won: Best Supporting Actress -

Nene Otsuka is a Japanese actress. She starred in Masahiro Kobayashi's film '' Bashing'', which was screened in competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Career Otuska has appeared in films such as Hirokazu Koreeda's ''I Wish'' and Yoshihiro Nakamura ...

*7th Best Film

References

External links

* * 2002 films Films directed by Hideyuki Hirayama 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub