Melodrama about the life of a mentally handicapped young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
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Title: A Quiet Life (1995)
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1 win & 3 nominations.
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Masayuki Imai | ... | Arai |
| Nobuko Miyamoto | |||
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Hinako Saeki | ... | Maa-chan |
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Mihoko Shibata | ||
| Atsuro Watabe | ... | Iiyo | |
| Tsutomu Yamazaki | |||
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Satomi Achiwa | ||
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Hisako Hara | ||
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Tokie Hidari | ||
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Shinobu Kawamata | ||
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Toshizô Kudô | ||
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Noboru Mitani | ||
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Tamaki Ogawa | ... | Weather Woman |
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Nobuto Okamoto | ||
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Kôzô Satô | ||
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Melodrama about the life of a mentally handicapped young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
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swimming lesson | sexual assault | literary figure | innocence | humanism |Genres:
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Country:
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23 September 1995 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
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Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaCompany Credits
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Japanese filmmakers have a gift for translating the tenets of humanist thought onto celluloid. Akira Kurosawa created several such masterpieces, from Ikiru to the triumphant Red Beard; Shunji Iwai contributed the wacky but thought-provoking Swallowtail; Juzo Itami gave us Daibyonin (The Last Dance) and this little treasure.
Iiyo is regarded as one of society's unfortunates, a "retard" as one schoolgirl exclaims, but he has a lovely, even enviable world view, one which, admittedly, the people closest to him are slow to pick up on. In fact, the "normal" folks in this film seem almost neurotic, as they manufacture complex and troublesome meanings and motives to explain Iiyo's behavior.
Long ago, a college professor advised me and 499 classmates to try to experience the world through the eyes of a severely handicapped person. He promised that it would be a most rewarding exercise. Juzo Itami captured this sentiment on film in a beautiful and thoughtful way.