kaza-hana
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Shinji Somai
Choei Takahashi
Kumiko Aso
Tadanobu Asano
Akira Emoto
Kyoko Koizumi
Film Details
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Synopsis
Sawaki is an elite bureaucrat and Lemon is an exotic hostess. Accustomed to achievement and privilege, Sawaki's arrogance and ruthlessness have now been tempered by humility due to an incident which ruined his promising career. Lemon's once happy, simple life as wife and mother has been crushed by her husband's death. After a chance encounter, Sawaki and Lemon, though occupying opposite positions in society, decide to travel together to Lemon's home island, Hokkaido, where Sawaki can find "a beautiful place to die." When their voyage takes an unexpected turn towards death, each learns from the other what makes life worth living.
Director
Shinji Somai
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 2000
Released in United States October 2000
Released in United States September 2000
Shown at Pusan International Film Festival October 6-14, 2000.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) September 7-16, 2000.
Completed shooting May 2000.
Released in United States 2000
Released in United States September 2000 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) September 7-16, 2000.)
Released in United States October 2000 (Shown at Pusan International Film Festival October 6-14, 2000.)
