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JAPANESE FILM SHOWS

The Rainbow Seeker / 虹をつかむ男

Saturday, 1st May 2010

Starting 15:00 at FINAS

The Rainbow Seeker / 虹をつかむ男

Directed by YAMADA Yoji (山田洋次), 1996, 120min, Colour

Staff

Director:

YAMADA Yoji

Script:

YAMADA Yoji

ASAMA Yoshitaka

Executive Producer:

NAKAGAWA Shigehiro

Producers:

FUKAZAWA Hiroshi

MOTOKI Katsuhide

Photography:

NAGANUMA Mutsuo

Art Director:

DEKAWA Mitsuo

Music:

YAMAMOTO Naozumi

Cast

SHIROGANE Katsuo:

NISHIDA Toshiyuki

西田敏行

HIRAYAMA Ryo:

YOSHIOKA Hidetaka

吉岡秀隆

TONARI Yaeko:

TANAKA Yuko

田中裕子

Tsune:

TANAKA Kunie

田中邦衛

Priest:

SUMA Kei

すまけい

Akabane, The Mailman:

YANAGISAWA Shingo

柳沢慎吾

SYNOPSIS:

After having a fight with his father, Ryo leaves home in Tokyo and gets to the small town. There he finds a job at a small cinema run by Katsuo SHIROGANE. Katsuo dedicates himself to making people happy through the movies. Katsuo introduces Ryo to Yaeko, a widow who runs a coffee shop. Katsuo longs for her secretly.

Ryo soon tries to quit the theatre due to the bad condition of employment, but knowing Katsuo’s devotion to the movies, he changes his mind and keeps working with him. Ryo’s first job is advertising the Saturday film, “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (New Cinema Paradise)”. The showing goes well, but the theatre is nowhere near as full as in the days of Katsuo’s youth.

One day, Yaeko’s father dies suddenly. Her family suggests her that she remarries and she decides to leave the town, knowing how Katsuo feels about her.

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