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Ashura no gotoku

Ashura no gotoku

2003Movie⏱️ 2h 15m
ComedyDrama
7
IMDB Rating
354 votes

The ups and downs of the Takezawa family after one of the four daughters found out that their father had been in an unknown love affair.

Director
Yoshimitsu Morita
Writers
Kuniko Mukôda, Tomomi Tsutsui
Stars
Shinobu Ôtake, Hitomi Kuroki, Eri Fukatsu
Release Date
November 8, 2003
Language
Japanese
Country
Japan
🏆 10
Wins
🎯 13
Nominations
💬 1
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

👤
Shinobu Ôtake
as Tsunako Mitamura - First Daughter
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Hitomi Kuroki
as Makiko Satomi - Second Daughter
Eri Fukatsu
Eri Fukatsu
as Takiko Takezawa - Third Daughter
Kyôko Fukada
Kyôko Fukada
as Sakiko Jinnai - Fourth Daughter
Tatsuya Nakadai
Tatsuya Nakadai
as Kotaro Takezawa
Kaoru Yachigusa
Kaoru Yachigusa
as Fuji Takezawa
Kaoru Kobayashi
Kaoru Kobayashi
as Takao Satomi
Shidô Nakamura
Shidô Nakamura
as Shizuo Katsumata
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Rikiya Kurokawa
as Hidemitsu Jinnai
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Mitsugorô Bandô
as Sadaharu Masukawa

💰 Box Office

$6,116,833
Worldwide Gross

🎬 Technical Specs

Sound
Dolby Digital
Color
Color
Production
Hakuhodo, Mainichi Shinbunsha, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K.

🏷️ Keywords

family relationshipsextramarital affairdetective agencywaitresstoy gun

🎯 Categories

JapaneseComedyDrama

⭐ Featured Review

Has its moments, but
by KFL2005-02-17
6/10

"Kind of hard to recommend this one highly. Ashura no Gotoku is a soap opera-ish story covering a couple of years in the lives of four sisters, their parents, and their husbands, fiances, and illicit lovers. Based on a novel by Kuniko Mukouda, one of the most popular female novelists in postwar Japan, and reputedly autobiographical--she is represented by the third sister Takiko, who wears glasses and is socially maladroit at first, but undergoes a dramatic transformation (always a good clue to the authorship of the story). The plot mostly revolves around how the four women try to cope with the..."

📖 Synopsis

The ups and downs of the Takezawa family after one of the four daughters found out that their father had been in an unknown love affair.