Grapefruit no yôna onna: Sei ran no hibi (1981)
A stylist and jazz lover meets a jazz musician who plays exceptionally well at a live music venue, and they fall in love. For the woman, love means intensely desiring the other person to the point of suffocation every single second, and that's how they truly love each other. Then the man receives an offer for a long-term performance in New York. For a jazz musician, a New York performance is a dream. The man leaves. At first, the woman is almost driven mad by loneliness, but eventually she starts to try to distract herself from that loneliness with other men. It is then that she realizes she is pregnant with the man's child…
Director:
Hideko Okiyama
Writer:
Hideko Okiyama
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Rie Kitahara as Ritsuko Shibata |
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Madoka Mizuki as Tae (a model) |
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Yôji Mine as Nobutada Yamazaki |
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Rumi Tama as Yoko Taki |
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Seru Rando as Humiliated fan |
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Takako Yamamura as Nurse |
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Hiroki Momiyama as Sotomura (a photographer) |
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Kohei Tsuzaki as Manager |
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Shôji Kimura as |
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Ichiro Ota as |
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Daiki Fujioka as |
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Goro Sato as Bar owner |
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Seiji Izumi as Rapist |
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Hikiichi Yamazaki as Jazz club member |
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Kenichi Kameyama as Jazz club member |
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Shoji Aketagawa as Jazz club member |
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Hachiro Tsuruoka as Gynecologist |
| Directing | Hideko Okiyama | Director |
| Writing | Hideko Okiyama | Screenplay |
| Camera | Seiichiro Takano | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Fumio Itabashi | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Akitaka Kimata | Producer |
| Lighting | Nobuyuki Hara | Gaffer |
| Sound | Hideko Okiyama | Theme Song Performance |
| Directing | Seiki Ota | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Minoru Akiyama | Sound Effects |
