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Tag Archives: Teruyuki Kagawa
Man Walking on Snow AKA Aruku, hito (2001) Masahiro Kobayashi, Ken Ogata, Yasufumi Hayashi, Teruyuki Kagawa
Scene: Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Read More »
Sway (2006) Miwa Nishikawa, Joe Odagiri, Teruyuki Kagawa, Masatô Ibu
On the anniversary of the death of the mother of a hip and happening Tokyo-based photographer, the son returns to his hometown for the funeral. Read More »
Beautiful Sunday (1998) Tetsuya Nakashima, Momoko Bitô, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ittoku Kishibe
A hit man in black struggles into an apartment complex. It turns out that the apartments are hosts to a cornucopia of characters. Read More »
Nuan (2003) Jianqi Huo, Xiaodong Guo, Teruyuki Kagawa, Jia Li
Like Huo’s Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who Read More »
Tokyo Sonata (2008) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Yû Koyanagi
An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. Read More »
Kagi-dorobô no mesoddo / Key of Life (2012) Kenji Uchida, Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Hirosue, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Unemployed 35 year old Sakurai aspired to become an actor, but failed miserably. He decides to end his own life, but first he goes to purify himself at a public bathhouse. Read More »
Hebi no michi / Serpent’s Path (1998) Shô Aikawa, Teruyuki Kagawa, Shiro Shitamoto, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Serpent’s Path and its companion piece Eyes of the Spider (Kumo No Hitomi) both start from the same premise: a man taking revenge for the murder of a child. Kurosawa used this premise as the jumping-off point for the two films rather than their definition, resulting in a pair of works which are not so much occupied with revenge, but with the mental processes of human beings in situations that have placed them outside everyday life.
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