Release Date : March, 31st, 2007
Screen Time : 120 min.
Genre : Drama, Fiction
Color : Color
Screening Format : 35mm
Screen Size : -
Sound System : Optical
Sound Processing : -
[ Directed by ] HAMAMOTO Masaki
[ Produced by ] INABA Masaharu
[ Cast ]
- UCHINO Masaaki Eikichi/Denzo
- NAKATANI Miki Ofumi
- ISHIBASHI Renji Seibei
- IWASHITA Shima Oshino
[ Staff ]
- YAMAMOTO Ichiriki Original Story
- SUZUKI Tatsuo Cinematography
- HAMAMOTO Masaki Screenplay
- SHINODA Masahiro Screenplay
- KAWAGUCHI Naoji Production Design
- IWASHIRO Taro Music
- KAWASHIMA Akimasa Editor
[ Production Company ]
AKANEZORA LLP, OLC Rights Entertainment (Japan)
[ Story ]
An empathic period drama, based on Yamamoto Ichiriki's Naoki Award winning novel, starring Nakatani Miki and Uchino Masaaki. The scene is set in Fukagawa in the Edo period, with Eikichi (Uchino Masaaki), a tofu maker who comes from Kyo to Edo, and his Edo-born wife, Ofumi (Nakatani Miki). It portrays the checkered life of the couple from the perspective of the bond between a husband and a wife.
Eikichi, having trained at an established tofu maker in Kyo, comes to a traditional town of Fukagawa Hamaguri-cho in Edo to open his own shop, where he meets Ofumi, a true-born Fukagawa girl full of life. With the help of Ofumi's father, Eikichi finds accommodation at the same tenement as Ofumi. Eikichi finally opens “Kyo-ya”, his long-planned Tofu shop of his own. Eikichi and Ofumi get married before long and build a home together. The business thrives, but their eldest son, who becomes tired of Tofu making, gets involved with gambling. The shop is taken over by another tofu maker as payment for debts, and the family is on the brink of disintegration. To make matters worse, Eikichi suddenly dies in an accident. Remembering that Tofu making was Eikichi's life, Ofumi and the children decide to protect Kyo-ya.
[ Official Site ]
(c)2006
(c)2006
