Tokyo biyori (1997)

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121 min - Drama - 18 October 1997 (Japan)

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This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.



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Cast

Credited cast:
	Naoto Takenaka	...	Mikio Shimazu
	Miho Nakayama	...	Yoko Shimazu
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Nobuyoshi Araki	...	Train conductor
	Tadanobu Asano
	Shiho Fujimura
	Yoshiko Kuga
	Takako Matsu	...	Mizutani
	Tomokazu Miura	...	Sotooka
	Yoshimitsu Morita
	Miyuki Nakajima	...	Bar hostess
	Hideo Nakata
	Satsuki Natsukawa
	Gô Rijû
	Kotobuki Shiriagari
	Masayuki Suo	...	Postman

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An enchanting look at the lives of a Japanese couple, based on the real-life diary extracts of the husband. He is a slightly offbeat photographer, a profession that grew out of his publishing a book of portraits of Yoko, his pretty wife, to whom he is devoted but doesn't entirely understand. She is highly strung, in fact a little off-balance, particularly as she forces her maternal attentions on neighbour's 8 year-old boy. The story is largely told in retrospect, after Yoko's death, and includes a variety of friends and incidental characters. Written by Martin Turner <martint@hknet.com>

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