The Laughing Frog (2002)
A woman has a fine life with rewarding work, a nice house, and a serious boyfriend in the lowlands of Japan. In walks her long lost husband who years ago disappeared and abandoned her. The wife allows her lost husband to secretly live in her house. More specifically, he lives in the wife's closet. The closet has a peep hole, so he does nothing day and night but watch his wife live her life.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama
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Kyōzō Nagatsuka as Ippei Kurasawa |
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Nene Otsuka as Ryoko Kurasawa |
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Jun Kunimura as Yoshizumi |
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Mickey Curtis as |
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Kitaro as |
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Shuzo Mitamura as |
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Kumiko Kin as |
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Kaho Minami as |
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Izumi Yukimura as |
| Writing | Izuru Narushima | Writer |
| Sound | Ryuji Murayama | Music |
| Directing | Hideyuki Hirayama | Director |
| Visual Effects | Takanori Sato | Visual Effects Producer |
| Production | Suguru Kubota | Producer |
| Writing | Izuru Narushima | Adaptation |
| Sound | Shigeru Izumiya | Theme Song Performance |
| Production | Satoshi Fukushima | Producer |
| Production | Atsushi Watanabe | Development Producer |
| Production | Shiro Sasaki | Development Producer |
| Production | Keizô Shukuzaki | Production Manager |
| Visual Effects | Hashimoto Mitsuaki | Visual Effects |
| Sound | Masatoshi Saito | Sound Effects |
| Art | Kôsuke Nishibuchi | Decorator |
| Sound | Hisayuki Miyamoto | Sound Recordist |
| Lighting | Nariyuki Ueda | Gaffer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mari Miyamoto | Costumer |
| Editing | Akimasa Kawashima | Editor |
| Art | Katsumi Nakazawa | Production Design |
| Sound | Ryuji Murayama | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Kōzō Shibazaki | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Yoshinaga Fujita | Original Story |