| Hana yori mo naho / Hana |
| Hana |
| Set in 1702, Hana yori mo naho looks back a full three centuries to a time when samurai clans offered monetary rewards to the samurais who succeeded in taking on a revenge act. The central character is a young samurai, Sozaemon Aoki, who has come to Edo (now Tokyo) to avenge his late father. Although he searches the city for his father's enemy, he is hopeless with swordplay and reluctant to pursue his mission. Living in an Edo tenement, poverty-stricken but rich in human relationships, Sozaemon starts to cherish life and question the meaning of taking revenge. |
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| Kore-eda Hirokazu |
| Tokyo, 1962. Having graduated in Literature from Waseda University, Kore-eda joined TV Man Union, an independent television production company with which he has directed several award-winning documentaries. His first feature film, Maborosi, won the Golden Osella at Venice Festival in 1995. This was followed by After Life (1998), winner of the Fipresci Prize at San Sebastian, Distance, which competed at Cannes 2001, and Nobody Knows, winner of the Best Actor Award at Cannes 2004. |
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| DIRECTOR |
| Kore-eda Hirokazu |
| SCREENPLAY |
| Kore-eda Hirokazu |
| PRODUCTION |
Hana Film Partners
c/o Shochiku Co., Ltd.
4-1-1, Tsukiji, Togeki Building, 12th Floor
Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8422
Tel 81 3 5550 1623
Fax 81 3 5550 1654
ibd@shochiku.co.jp
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| PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Yamazaki Yutaka |
| EDITION |
| Kore-eda Hirokazu |
| CAST |
| Okada Junichi, Miyazawa Rie, Asano Tadanobu, Furuta Arata, Kagawa Teruyuki |
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Shochiku Co., Ltd.
ibd@shochiku.co.jp |
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| RUNNING TIME |
| 127 m. |
| COUNTRY |
| Japan |
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