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Film inspired by the life of Japanese actor Taiji Tonoyama, with whom Kaneto Shindo had worked on many occasions, with the help of archive images and fragments of the most famous films of the director. The actress Nobuko Otowa adds dialogues facing the camera, as if she was talking to Tonoyama and remembering together old episodes of the interpreter, a past marked by alcoholism and a hectic sex life.
Cast

Naoto Takenaka
Taiji Tonoyama

Keiko Oginome
Kimie

Hideko Yoshida
Taiji's wife

Nobuko Otowa
Okaji

Yasuhito Hida
Kei Satō
Kagetora Miura
Kei Yamamoto

Yuriko Hirooka
Yoshiko
Yûki Suzuki
Young Yoshiko

Hideyuki Kasahara
Yasuo

Kuriko Namino
Liquor Store Housewife

Mitsuko Baisho

Masayuki Shionoya

Tokuko Watanabe

Eimei Esumi

Yoji Tanaka

Kaneto Shindō
Director / Writer

Natsuko Fuji
Nobuo Shimazaki

Nao Omori



