Soup Opera

Soup Opera

119 mins | Comedy | Oct. 2, 2010

Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.

Soup Opera

119 mins | Comedy | Oct. 2, 2010

Soup Opera
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through an unexpected set of circumstances, she winds up becoming roommates with an aging ladies’ man named Tony and a timid younger man named Kosuke.
Producers Eisei Gekijo
Original title スープ・オペラ
Directors Chizuru Yamashita, Tomoyuki Takimoto
Writers Sawako Agawa, Kenji Aoki

Cast

Maki Sakai

as Rui

Takahiro Nishijima

as Kosuke

Tatsuya Fuji

as Tony Tanaka

Mariko Kaga

as Toba-chan

Sawa Suzuki

as Nanako

Sei Hiraizumi

as Gou Inoue

Masato Hagiwara

as Doctor Mizutani

Ryosei Tayama

as shop owner

Kimiko Yo

as Yasuko Tanaka

Sansei Shiomi

as library director

Reiko Kusamura

as Mrs. Katsuragi

Kyūsaku Shimada

as Editor Kuraki

Daikichi Sugawara

as Professor Ishibashi

Tôru Shinagawa

as bus dispatcher

Saburo Tamura

as professor Ootani

Yoshiyuki Morishita

as Sasajima

Wakaba Irie

as Sasajima's mother