The Face of Jizo

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Audience Score
67
The Face of Jizo
StarringRie MiyazawaYoshio HaradaTadanobu Asano
DirectorKazuo Kuroki
WriterHisashi Inoue
NR 1 hr 39 minDrama
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Plot
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.

Movie Details

Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Eisei Gekijo, Bandai Visual, NIHON SKY WAY, TV Tokyo Medianet, AOI Pro., Pal Entertainments Production, Nikkatsu Studio
atomic bombhiroshima, japan