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Ninety-nine’s Takashi Okamura joins cast of “Dear” (Anata e)

23 April 2012 4:44 PM, PDT | Nippon Cinema | See recent Nippon Cinema news »

Today it was announced that comedian Takashi Okamura, half of the manzai comedy duo Ninety-nine and host of Fuji TV’s long-running comedy show “Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!”, will appear in Yasuo Furuhata’s Dear (working title), following through on a 12-year-old agreement with the film’s star.

Actor Ken Takakura, who had not made a big screen appearance in 6 years, stars in the film as a widower named Eiji Kurashima who discovers a letter from his late wife Yoko (Yuko Tanaka) asking for her ashes to be brought to her hometown so she can be buried at sea. Although they had married late in life, he thought he knew everything about her and wonders why she didn’t tell him about this when she was alive. He sets out on a road trip to fulfill her final wish, meeting several people along the way with different stories and situations that remind »

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