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Story:
Rieko Saibara (Kyoko Koizumi) is a cartoonist and mother of a 6-year-old boy and 4-year-old girl. When she has a difficult time, she throws away her problems with laughter. Her husband Kamoshitda (Masatoshi Nagase) used to be a war camera man, but now he’s addicted to alcohol. He struggles to overcome his problem, but keeps failing. Finally, they get divorced. After Kamoshida loses his family, he realizes how precious they are. He focuses on getting away from alcohol, but another disease comes to him. Even though Saibara knows that he can not make it for long, she accepts him back to her family again. Since then a happy, but short, time exists for the family of four.

Movie Title: Mainichi Kasan
Directed by: Shotaro Kobayashi
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: None at the moment. Do not request.
Year: 2011
Genre: Art House, Comedy

Cast:
Kyoko Koizumi
Masatoshi Nagase
Kosuke Yabe
Mau Konishi
Terue Shoji
Arata Furuta
Nao Omori
Tomoko Tabata
Ken Mitsuishi
Sawa Suzuki
Rie Shibata
Akira Hokuto
Tamae Ando
Kyoko Toyama

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Movie: Wasao
Romaji: Wasao
Japanese: わさお
Director: Yoshinari Nishikori
Writer: Hirotoshi Kobayashi
Producer:
Cinematographer: Hiro Yanagida
Release Date: March 5, 2011
Runtime: 116 min.
Distributor: Toei
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

A big furry white Akita arrives wonders into the town of Ajigasawa, Aomori – within view of the Shirakami Mountain Range. The dog is tired and in fact has travelled all the way from Tokyo to find its owner. The Akita dog then runs into Setsuko Kikuya (Hiroko Yakushimaru), the owner of a squid restaurant. The dog doesn’t seem to follow anybody and has a habit of appearing and disappearing.

Through several cases likes the Nebutsu Festival & the Ajigasawa Triathlon Event, the relationship between Tetsuko and the Akita dog becomes closer …

Cast

Hiroko Yakushimaru – Setsuko Kikuya
Mitsuru Hirata – Hiroshi Kikuya (Setsuko’s husband)
Masahiro Komoto – Tatsuya
Sawa Suzuki – Naoko
Masaki Izawa – Akira Tagawa
Jun Yoshinaga – Maki Tagawa (Akira’s sister)
Daisuke Shima – Ihara
Mikio Osawa – Veterinarian Tanioka
Toshinori Omi – Tsuyoshi Tagawa (Akira’s father)
Sabu Kawahara – old man
Mansaku Fuwa – old man
Koichi Ueda – old man
Shiro Sano – Shigeo (Naoko’s father)
Takashi Sasano – Hasegawa (matagi/hunter)
Makiko Kuno – Misako Tagawa
Seira Maeda – Sayo (student)
Kai Inowaki – Tomoya (student)
Ouki Fujimoto – student
Yoshizumi Ito – grandfather

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