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Director:
Masato Harada
Writers:
Masako Bando (novel)
Masato Harada (writer)
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Release Date:
27 January 2001 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller | Fantasy | Romance more
Plot:
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
6 wins & 2 nominations more
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...Not-Old Old Maid... more (10 total)

Cast

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Yûki Amami ... Miki Bonomiya
Atsuro Watabe ... Akira Nutahara
Eugene Harada ... Seiji Doi
Shiho Fujimura ... Tomie Bonomia
Kazuhiro Yamaji ... Takanao
Kanako Fukaura ... Momoyo Bonomia
Shion Machida ... Sonoko Bonomia
Ken'ichi Yajima ... Michio Bonomia
Masato Irie ... Hirofumi Bonomia
Makoto Togashi ... Hide, the Nurse
Torahiko Hamada ... Old Man in Black
Miyû Watase ... Rika Bonomia
Keiko Awaji ... Katsuko Doi
Kôichi Satô ... Mimoto, the Hunter
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Rie Ino'o
Osamu Shigematu
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Runtime:
106 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Black and White | Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby SR
Certification:
UK:15 | Finland:K-15 | Japan:R-15 | Australia:M | Australia:MA (cable rating)
Company:
Asmik Ace Entertainment more

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3 out of 10 people found the following comment useful.
...Not-Old Old Maid..., 26 October 2002
Author: frankgaipa from Oakland, California

A mini-festival spared me the bother of buying this, and gave the opportunity of seeing it on a large screen. "Inugami" opens with an aerial shot of a two-lane following the low winding juncture of two lushly forested mountains. It's the kind of landscape that inspires Hayao Miyazaki. At the end of the line, find a small, insular, modern-day village, on whose outskirts a not-old old-maid follows generations-old traditions making very fine paper.

Our out-of-town protagonist falls in love with the paper-maker. Small town tensions, based both in the present and in the past, simmer, boil, explode.

Not great, but worth seeing for the scenery and paper-making alone. Put's me in mind of Mitsuo Yanagimachi's 1985 "Himatsuri."

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