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By Player

126 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 2, 2000

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

By Player

126 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 2, 2000

By Player

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

IMDb rating	7.2
Producers	Kindai Eiga Kyokai, Dragon Films
Original title	三文役者
Directors	Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Kaze Shindo, Yûichi Kanemaru, Kaneto Shindō
Writers	Kaneto Shindō

Cast

Naoto Takenaka

as Taiji Tonoyama

Keiko Oginome

as Kimie

Hideko Yoshida

as Taiji's wife

Nobuko Otowa

as Okaji

Yasuhito Hida

as Kei Satō

Kagetora Miura

as Kei Yamamoto

Yuriko Hirooka

as Yoshiko

Yûki Suzuki

as Young Yoshiko

Hideyuki Kasahara

as Yasuo

Kuriko Namino

as Liquor Store Housewife

Mitsuko Baisho

as

Masayuki Shionoya

as

Tokuko Watanabe

as

Eimei Esumi

as

Yoji Tanaka

as

Kaneto Shindō

as

Natsuko Fuji

as

Nobuo Shimazaki

as

Nao Omori

as

Takuji Suzuki

as

Reita Serizawa

as

Kirina Mano

as Woman at Bar

Rinko Kikuchi

as