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Hana Yori Mo Naho

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Publisher : BDV
Audio : Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : English/Japanese
Running Time : 128mins
Release Year : 2006
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(Synopsis) A young samurai, Sozaemon Aoki, has left his hometown and is now living in Edo. He is in search of Jubei Kanazawa ... the man who killed his father.

Living in a dilapidated tenement housing, in the poor quarters of Edo -- His neighbors in the so-called "row houses" are all good, solid folk who can never even hope to rise out of the squalor of their surroundings. Sozaemon, the provincial samurai, becomes friends with a variety of characters including a habitual drunk, an unsuccessful would-be petty official, a ragman, a perky girl, a doctor, and a scrivener. As the relationships between the characters unfold, we are led deeper into the blossoming love story of Sozaemon and the beautiful widow, Osae.

Although he has never forgotten his task to find his father's enemy and to succeed in his vengeance, being around Osae and her son, Sozaemon feels a warm feeling inside, which leads to doubts about the entire act of revenge. However, to walk away from the revenge act (adauchi) could actually bring his entire family down; not only would he be without the reward from the Shogun, but also, as a samurai, his failure to seek revenge would be an act of cowardice, and a disgrace to the entire family name.

Sozaemon, still not being able to decide whether he should seek revenge, goes on with his everyday life, teaching the neighborhood children mathematics, reading, and writing. He wonders whether he can ever enjoy life without the specter of revenge and swordplay.

With the discovery of a rich, meaningful life rather than the meaningless death of a warrior, Sozaemon, together with his strange friends at the tenement row house, decides to plot the act of a lifetime!

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Director
Hirokazu Koreeda

Script
Hirokazu Koreeda

Producer
Julie K. Fujishima
Nozomu Enoki
Shiho Sato

Cast
Arata Furuta
Eiji Minakata
Hiei Kimura
Jun Kunimura
Junichi Okada
Katsuo Nakamura
Kenichi Endo
Masa Tommies
Moeko Ezawa
Natsuo Ishido
Renji Ishibashi
Rie Miyazawa
Ryo Kase
Ryo Katsuji
Ryuuhei Ueshima
Sei Hiraizumi
Seiji Chihara
Shohei Tanaka
Susumu Terajima
Tadanobu Asano
Teruyuki Kagawa
Tetsushi Tanaka
Tomoko Tabata
Yoshio Harada
Yui Natsukawa
Yuichi Kimura
Yuji Nakamura

Publisher : BDV
Audio : Japanese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : English/Japanese
Running Time : 128mins
Release Year : 2006