IMDb > Hotaru (2001)

Overview

User Rating:
6.0/10   23 votes
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Director:
Yasuo Furuhata
Writers:
Yasuo Furuhata (writer)
Hiroshi Takeyama (writer)
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Release Date:
May 2001 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama
Awards:
2 wins & 13 nominations more
User Comments:
Life in the couple more (3 total)

Cast

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Ken Takakura ... Yamaoka Shûji
Yûko Tanaka ... Yamaoka Tomoko
Isao Natsuyagi ... Takemoto
Ryuuji Harada ... Tetsuo
Takami Mizuhashi ... Fujieda
Ayako Kobayashi ... Otsuka Hisako
Kiichi Nakai ... Nakajima
Hisashi Igawa ... Fujieda Youji
Tomoko Naraoka ... Yamamoto Tomiko
Nenji Kobayashi ... Ogata
Renji Ishibashi ... Yamazaki
Yukiyoshi Ozawa ... Kaneyama
Yuko Fueki ... Young Tomoko Yamaoka
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Firefly (USA)
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Runtime:
114 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Certification:
South Korea:12 | France:U
Company:
Toei Company more

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Trivia:
Nominated in all 13 categories at the 2002 Japanese Academy Awards, but won nothing. more

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1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
Life in the couple, 23 February 2003
Author: Furuya Shiro from Kumamoto, Japan

The key concept came up to me from the film is "life". Husband survived due to unwanted accidental landing from the suicide attack of "Kamikaze" in WW2 where the nation treated young lives as consumables. Wife has been depending her life on artificial dialysis for years. Both have something special in terms of "life", and respect them each other. The acting performances of Takakura Ken and Tanaka Yuko are outstanding. Unfortunately, others perform poorly. Some episodes, the stowaways for example, are meaningless. I rate 7 of 10.

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