is a 2003

Japanese film The has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that ea ...

directed by

Ryūichi Hiroki is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for ''800 Two Lap Runners''. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character". Biography ''Pink ...

. It is based on the 1999 book of the same name by writer Mari Akasaka.

Plot

After meeting a handsome truck driver (Nao Omori) in an urban mini-mart, a 30-something freelance writer (Shinobu Terajima) embarks on a life-changing emotional journey of sexual discovery.

Cast

Shinobu Terajima is a Japanese actress. Her feature films include '' Akame 48 Waterfalls'' (2003) and '' Vibrator'' (2003). For her role in ''Caterpillar'' (2010), Terajima won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 60th Berlin Film Festival while her performan ...

* Nao Omori *

Tomorowo Taguchi is a Japanese actor, film director and musician. After leaving Dokkyo University without graduating, he started to earn his living as an illustrator, writer and pornographic cartoonist. He joined a theatre called Hakken no Kai in 1978 and he ma ...

*Masahiro Toda *Eriko Takayanagi *

Riho Makise is a Japanese actress. She debuted at the Takeda Hi-C contest in 1989, which she won. She is represented by the Blooming Agency. Appearances Films TV series Special TV dramas External links Official blog {{DEFAULTSORT:Makise, Riho ...

*Miki Sakajo *

Jun Murakami is a Japanese actor. He is not to be confused with Japanese stunt actor Jun Murakami. Career Murakami starred in Sho Miyake's ''Playback'' (2012). He co-starred in Sion Sono's '' The Land of Hope'' (2012) with Megumi Kagurazaka. He has also a ...

*Eugene Nomura

Awards and nominations

25th Yokohama Film Festival * Won: Best Film * Won: Best Director -

* Won: Best Screenplay -

Haruhiko Arai is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the ''Eiga Geijutsu'' magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. Career Arai won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film '' W's Traged ...

* Won: Best Actress -

* Won: Best Supporting Actor - Nao Ōmori

References

External links

* 2003 films Films directed by Ryūichi Hiroki Japanese drama films 2000s Japanese-language films 2000s Japanese films {{2000s-Japan-film-stub