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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

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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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