Soap jô: Nama shaku awamamire (1999)
Heihachiro runs an izakaya designed to look like a graveyard—a display of bad taste that thoroughly exasperates his daughter, Yukiko. She faces another problem, too: Heihachiro refuses to consent to her marriage to her boyfriend, Hatori. Meanwhile, Heihachiro goes to repay a debt to Catherine, a sex worker from whom he had borrowed money for his shop's renovation—funds originally left by her late mother. However, he discovers that Catherine has had the money stolen by Fukuda, the president of a real estate company...
Director:
Satoru Kobayashi
Writer:
Shusuke Mikawa
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Yûki Emoto as |
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Kyôko Kazama as |
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Tomomi Aizawa as |
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Keiko Minami as |
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Nana Morikawa as |
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Shouzou Sakairi as |
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Katsunori Maekawa as |
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Taketo Aida as |
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Ken'ichi Tajima as |
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Jun Hosaka as |
| Directing | Satoru Kobayashi | Director |
| Directing | Teiichi Hori | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Shusuke Mikawa | Screenplay |
| Camera | Tomoki Yanagida | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | ICE T | Gaffer |
| Camera | Hatsutarô Satô | Still Photographer |