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Kaza-hana

Kaza-hana

2000Movie⏱️ 1h 56m
Drama
6.8
IMDB Rating
392 votes

A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.

Director
Shinji Sômai
Writers
Raimi Mori, Sho Narumi
Stars
Kyôko Koizumi, Tadanobu Asano, Kumiko Asô
Release Date
January 27, 2001
Language
Japanese
Country
Japan
🏆 2
Wins
🎯 2
Nominations
💬 7
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Kyôko Koizumi
Kyôko Koizumi
as Yuriko Tomita
Tadanobu Asano
Tadanobu Asano
as Sawaki
Kumiko Asô
Kumiko Asô
as Miki
👤
Akira Emoto
as Master of hot spring hotel
Yoshiko Kayama
Yoshiko Kayama
as Yuriko's mother
Fumiyo Kohinata
Fumiyo Kohinata
as Sawaki's boss
👤
Toshinori Omi
as Nightclub manager
Kippei Shîna
Kippei Shîna
as Celebrity at airport
👤
Tsurube Shôfukutei
👤
Chôei Takahashi
as Yuriko's stepfather

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.85 : 1
Sound
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
Production
Be-Wild, Cinequanon, TV Asahi

🏷️ Keywords

hokkaido japantokyo japanjapanese womanprostitutehotel room

🎯 Categories

JapaneseDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Constructed for our dreams
by ReadingFilm2022-11-30
10/10

"I notice much of his work is in how people look. It always balloons from there with our assumptions about them. Here he is a bureacrat in a suit but also mildly drunk the whole time, more of an anti-yuppie. She a stripper with a heart of gold. I believe his character is meant to display a casual and banal cruelty. The son of privilege and means, but is a generational black hole. It flips the expectation. Throughout it we think he is damaged beyond repair rather than the self-indulgent narcissist that he is. We also underestimate her real pain, thinking she is there to fix him. Much of it on..."

💡 Did You Know?

This was Director Shinji Sômai's last film before his death.

📖 Synopsis

A government employee meets a hostess of a "pink club," and together they set out on a journey.