An Artist of the Floating World (2019)
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into WWII.
Director:
Kazutaka Watanabe
Writer:
Yuki Fujimoto
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Ken Watanabe as Ono Masuji |
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Hirosue Ryoko as Murakami Setsuko |
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Aki Maeda as Ono Noriko |
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Kokoro Terada as Murakami Setsuko |
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Masato Wada as Murakami Soichi |
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Masato Hagiwara as Kuroda |
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Daichi Watanabe as Enchi |
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Kouhei Takeda as Miyake Jiro |
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Ryuta Sato as Shintaro |
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Natsuko Akiyama as Madam Kawakami |
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Eiji Okuda as Matsuda |
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Aoi Nakamura as Ono Masuji |
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Shunsuke Daitoh as Matsuda |
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Fumiyo Kohinata as Moriyama Seiji |
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Tomoya Maeno as Nakahara Yasunari |
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Shiro Sano as Dr. Saito |
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Kimiko Yo as Mrs. Saito |
| Writing | Yuki Fujimoto | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kazuo Ishiguro | Novel |
| Directing | Kazutaka Watanabe | Director |
| Sound | Jun Miyake | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Tetsuo Funabashi | First Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Seong Hyun Lee | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Takafumi Yuki | Visual Effects Producer |
| Production | Yohei Nakama | Location Manager |
| Production | Yohei Nakama | Location Manager |
| Production | Shinsuke Naito | Production Supervisor |