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7.5/10   162 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Yoshitaka Asama (writer)
Pete Hamill (novel)
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Release Date:
28 April 1978 (USA) more
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Awards:
27 wins & 2 nominations more
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(2 articles)
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Latest MPAA Ratings: Bulletin No: 2093
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Ken Takakura ... Yusaku Shima
Chieko Baisho ... Mitsue Shima
Tetsuya Takeda ... Kinya Hanada
Kaori Momoi ... Akemi Ogawa
Hachiro Tako
Hisao Dazai ... Ryokan Manager
Mari Okamoto ... Ramen Shop Girl
Kiyoshi Atsumi ... Watanabe Kacho
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Makoto Akatsuka ... Chinpira
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Yellow Handkerchief (USA)
The Yellow Handkerchief of Happiness
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Runtime:
Japan:109 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Won the first-ever Japanese Academy Award for Best Picture, in 1978. more
Movie Connections:
Remade as The Yellow Handkerchief (2008) more

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A popular modern classic, 25 March 2000
8/10
Author: adrian tanovic from Japan

You could describe it as a gritty, "thinking man's Tora-san" (in fact it shares a script-writer and some of the same cast as the early Tora-san films). Funny in many places but not a comedy; more like a slice-of-reality, on-the-road film in which three strangers are thrown together and romantic love triumphs in the end. Not an art film by any means, but great in its own way.

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