Sad Vacation

feature film, 2007.

DIRECTED BY: Shinji Aoyama

Sad Vacation

CAST:
Tadanobu Asano (Kenji Shiraishi),
Eri Ishida (Chiyoko Mamiya),
Yuka Itaya (Saeko Shiina) Yûsuke Kawazu (Kijima),
Kengo Kôra (Yusuke Mamiya)

SCRIPT:
Shinji Aoyama (prema vlastitom romanu)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Masaki Tamura

Synopsis:
This film bring a new story involving some characters from Aoyama’s older films Helpless (1996) and Eureka (2000). Kenji was left by his mother when he was five years old. Soon afterwards, his father committed suicide and Kenji is left completely alone. Now he is a grown man and does not have any stability in his life. He cannot hold down a job and takes care of a daughter of his deceased friend. He also takes in a boy whose father died during their illegal entry into China. Suddenly he meets his mother…

35 mm, color, 110 min

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