Toad's Oil

Toad's Oil

131 mins | Drama | June 6, 2009

The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), and teenage son Tetsuya (Eita) - who dreams of becoming an astronaut. The family is also joined by Saburo Akiba (Junichi Sawayashiki), a good-natured teen recently released from a juvenile corrections facility. Then one day Tetsuya falls into a coma from a car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son Tokuya...

Toad's Oil

131 mins | Drama | June 6, 2009

Toad's Oil
The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), and teenage son Tetsuya (Eita) - who dreams of becoming an astronaut. The family is also joined by Saburo Akiba (Junichi Sawayashiki), a good-natured teen recently released from a juvenile corrections facility. Then one day Tetsuya falls into a coma from a car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son Tokuya...
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers
Original title ガマの油
Directors Koji Yakusho
Writers

Cast

Koji Yakusho

as Takuro Yazawa

Eita Nagayama

as Tetsuya Yazawa

Satomi Kobayashi

as Terumi Yazawa

Fumi Nikaido

as Hikari

Kaoru Yachigusa

as Hikari's grandmother