Yellow Tears

Yellow Tears

128 mins | Drama | April 14, 2007

The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.

Yellow Tears

128 mins | Drama | April 14, 2007

Yellow Tears
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers J Storm
Original title 黄色い涙
Directors Isshin Inudo
Writers Shin'ichi Ichikawa

Cast

Sho Sakurai

as Ryuzo Mukai

Masaki Aiba

as Shoichi Inoue

Kazunari Ninomiya

as Eisuke Muraoka

Satoshi Ohno

as Kei Shimokawa

Jun Matsumoto

as Yuji Katsumada

Yuu Kashii

as Tokie

Hanae Kan

as Yasuko Muraoka

Seiko Iwaido

as Yumiko

Kin Sugai

as Yone

Kotaro Shiga

as Hayashida

Hirotaro Honda

as Teikichi

Tomoko Tabata

as Kaoru Nishigaki

Chieko Matsubara

as Kinu Muraoka

Mariko Wordell

as Mikako Yoshino