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Meet the Harunos, a rather unconventional, but happy and loving family nonetheless. They live in a small town in the mountains just out of Tokyo where life is good and quiet - but that doesn't mean they don't have their own little problems.
As 8-year old Sachiko (Maya Banno) tries to get rid of a giant version of herself who seems to pop up everywhere, her older brother Hajime (Takahiro Sato), privately wrestles with his love-struck heart. Meanwhile, their mother Yoshiko (Satomi Tezuka) is working hard, coming out of retirement as an animator, as her husband and professional hypnotist Nobuo (Tomokazu Miura) watches on with slight apprehension. Yoshiko's brother, Ayano (Tadanobu Asano) is just visiting his hometown and staying with the family, but also has ashidden agenda; he needs to come to terms with a romance that ended years ago. Even Nobuo's brother and successful manga artist Todoroki has his problems. It's his birthday soon and he wants to give himself something special. And lastly there's Grandpa, the most bizarre and perhaps the most perceptive of all, who continues to search for a better way to live life to the full.
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Takahiro Satô
Japan
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Kenji Mizuhashi
Japan
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Yoshiyuki Morishita
Japan
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Shun'ichirō Miki
Best movies:
The Taste of Tea (2004)
Daigaku Sekine
Japan
Best movies:
Kikujiro (1999)
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)
The Taste of Tea (2004)
Shinji Takeda
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
The Taste of Tea (2004)
The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Masaaki Tatsuzawa
Best movies:
The Taste of Tea (2004)
Kaiji Moriyama
Japan
Best movies:
The Taste of Tea (2004)
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
The Round Table (2014)