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Director:
Yasuo Furuhata
Writer:
So Kuramoto (writer)
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Release Date:
23 April 1982 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama
Awards:
14 wins & 8 nominations more
User Comments:
A very beautiful film. more (1 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Ken Takakura ... Eiji Mikami
Chieko Baisho ... Kiriko (1979) Michio
Ayumi Ishida ... Naoko Mikami (1968)
Setsuko Karasuma ... Suzuko Yoshimatsu (1976)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kai Ato ... Ryosuke Honjo
Yû Fujiki ... Ichiro Mikami
Akihiko Hirata
Ryo Ikebe ... Chief Nakagawa
Ken Iwabuchi ... Yoshitaka Mikami
Tanie Kitabayashi ... Masayo Mikami
Yûko Kotegawa ... Fuyuko Mikami
Sachiko Murase ... Ryosuke's mother
Hideo Murota ... Shigeru Morioka
Toshiyuki Nagashima ... Michio Mikami
Akira Nagoya ... Takada
Jinpachi Nezu ... Goro Yoshimatsu
Junkichi Orimoto
Hideji Otaki ... Aiba
Kei Sato
Tetsuya Takeda
Kunie Tanaka ... Sugawara
Minori Terada ... Chikaraishi
Ryudo Uzaki ... Yukio Kinoshita
Masako Yagi ... Aiba's wife
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Station (USA)
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Runtime:
132 min | South Korea:98 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
South Korea:All (heavily cut)
Company:
Toho Company more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
A very beautiful film., 26 November 2003
Author: guru_monk from San Diego, California

This is a Ken Takakura vehicle, and as such follows his formula. Takakura plays to type as the laconic brooder who suffers multiple tragedies with manly stoicism. While the variety of his film varied greatly, his films with director Yasuo Furuhata were always of the highest quality, and this is no exception. Takakura is a cop training to be a sharpshooter for the Olympic games, he divorces his wife and abandons his daughter when he discovers she's had an affair. Later his coach is gunned down by a fleeing criminal. Years later Takakura returns to his snowy hometown and starts an affair with a middle-aged bar owner. The story is a bit thick, with a number of subplots, yet it is extrordinarily melancholic, as Takakura seems to regret everything he's done in his life and is made over and over again to relive his mistakes. There is very little "action" as such, and no yakuzas of any kind; but beyond that this is one of the most lushly beautiful and emotional films you can see (if you can see it), with an excellent score by Ryudo Uzaki.

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