Afro Tanaka

Afro Tanaka

114 mins | Comedy, Romance | Feb. 18, 2012

Hiroshi Tanaka sports an intense perm which looks like the afro hairstyle favored by some African-Americans back in the 1970's. He doesn't get his hair done at a hair shop, he was actually born with his hair like that. For freedom, Hiroshi moves to Tokyo. He works hard there and, even though he turns 24, he still doesn't have a girlfriend. Meanwhile, a school friend informs Hiroshi that he is going to get married. Hiroshi remembers a promise that they made. Hiroshi is even more impatient to find a girlfriend. A beautiful woman named Aya Kato then moves into the neighborhood.

Afro Tanaka

114 mins | Comedy, Romance | Feb. 18, 2012

Afro Tanaka
Hiroshi Tanaka sports an intense perm which looks like the afro hairstyle favored by some African-Americans back in the 1970's. He doesn't get his hair done at a hair shop, he was actually born with his hair like that. For freedom, Hiroshi moves to Tokyo. He works hard there and, even though he turns 24, he still doesn't have a girlfriend. Meanwhile, a school friend informs Hiroshi that he is going to get married. Hiroshi remembers a promise that they made. Hiroshi is even more impatient to find a girlfriend. A beautiful woman named Aya Kato then moves into the neighborhood.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Smoke
Original title アフロ田中
Directors Tetsuhiko Tsuchiya, Daigo Matsui
Writers Masafumi Nishida, Masaharu Noritsuke

Cast

Shota Matsuda

as Hiroshi Tanaka

Nozomi Sasaki

as Aya

Atsushi Tsutsumishita

as Mikio Osawa

Kei Tanaka

as Hajime Okamoto

Kaname Endo

as Daisuke Murata

Ryusuke Komakine

as Shinya Inoue

原干惠

as Yumi

Minami

as Sachiko Yoshioka

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

as Shinji Suzuki

Sarutoki Minagawa

as Shinji Nishida

Maho Yamada

as Reiko Nikaido

Haru

as

Rina Takeda

as Kondo

Jiro Sato

as MC at wedding

Emiri Henmi

as Tanaka's mother

Lily Franky

as Company president