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GOGO NO YIGONJO (1995)

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Film details

Featuring

Haruko Sugimura Nobuko Otowa Kyoko Asagiri
Director

Kaneto Shindo
Country

Japan
Year

1995
Genre

Drama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Alternative titles

A LAST NOTE Alternative

Synopsis

Drama about an aging stage actress who returns to her villa in a mountain resort district, planning to spend her summer there. She is informed that an octogenarian who used to tend the garden has killed himself. She is visited by a couple of old friends who calmly decide to kill themselves. Her housekeeper tells her she had an affair with her husband, who is the father of her teenage daughter. The two women reconcile.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Yoko Morimoto
    
    Haruko Sugimura
  - Toyoko Yanagawa
    
    Nobuko Otowa
  - Tomie Ushikuni
    
    Kyoko Asagiri
  - Akemi Yanagawa
    
    Tomomi Seo
  - Tohachiro Ushikuni
    
    Hideo Kanze
  - policeman
    
    Toshiyuki Nagashima
  - Naoko Yazawa
    
    Mitsuko Baisho
  - Daigoro
    
    Yutaka Matsushige
  - prisoner
    
    Katsumi Kiba
  - police chief
    
    Kôichi Ueda
  - Saburo Morimoto
    
    Masahiko Tsugawa
  - Koji Kiyokawa
    
    Uchino, Masaaki
Credits
- Direction:
  - Director
    
    Kaneto Shindo
  Production:
  - Production Company
    
    Kindai Eiga Kyokai
  - Executive Producer
    
    Jiro Shindo
  - Producer
    
    Kiyoshi Mizogami
  - Producer
    
    Yasuto Ibata
  Writing:
  - Screenplay
    
    Kaneto Shindo
  Photography:
  - Director of Photography
    
    Yoshiyuki Miyake
  Design:
  - Art Director
    
    Shigemori Shigeta
  Music:
  - Music
    
    Hikaru Hayashi
  Sound:
  - Sound
    
    Sususmu Take

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