Translucent Tree (2004)
Translucent Tree is centered around divorced Chigiri, a suburban middle-aged mother taking care of her teenage daughter, Mayu, and her ailing father Kaho. Her life is mundane and rather hopeless until Go, a TV producer from Tokyo, pays a visit to her town and the tree they shared time under some twenty years back after a TV commercial shoot. His remembrances of her, the tree, and the long unrequited love stir both of their hearts to fumbling action as they re-discover the love between them.
Director:
Kichitaro Negishi
Writer:
Yōzō Tanaka
![]() |
Kumiko Akiyoshi as Chigiri Yamazaki |
![]() |
Toshiyuki Nagashima as Go Imai |
![]() |
Masaya Takahashi as Kaho Yamazaki |
![]() |
Kazuko Yoshiyuki as |
![]() |
Keiko Toda as |
![]() |
Mitsuru Hirata as |
![]() |
Mayumi Sawaki as |
![]() |
Minori Terada as |
![]() |
Tsuyoshi Ujiki as |
![]() |
Ryosei Tayama as |
![]() |
Magi as |
![]() |
Guadalcanal Taka as |
| Directing | Kichitaro Negishi | Director |
| Writing | Nobuko Takagi | Novel |
| Writing | Yōzō Tanaka | Screenplay |
| Production | Yutaka Okada | Producer |
| Camera | Koichi Kawakami | Director of Photography |
| Art | Fumio Ogawa | Production Design |
| Sound | Terumasa Hino | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Shigeru Abe | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Shin'ichi Itô | Sound Effects |
| Lighting | Hideo Kumagai | Gaffer |
| Editing | Akira Suzuki | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Kumiko Ogawa | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | 高知尾博幸 | Costume Design |
| Directing | Masaya Takahashi | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Akane Shiratori | Script Supervisor |
| Camera | 佐藤ヒデキ | Still Photographer |
| Camera | 西宮大策 | Still Photographer |