Family Bond (2020)
Shingo Kawasaki is a master carpenter with consummate skills. He looks somewhat scary but he is full of human warmth and has a weakness for women. Living happily with his wife and daughter, he is known as a hard-worker. One day he encounters an insurance saleswoman, a single mother with a withdrawn son. Shingo becomes attached to the fatherless boy and eventually he decides to build a house for him and his saleswoman mother. Understandably, his wife, daughter and his apprentice are not very happy with his behavior. He seems unable to read the air around his home and business. While devoting himself to build the house, the boy’s father suddenly appears, wanting to come back into his child’s life.
Director:
Hajime Gonno
Writer:
Itaru Era
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Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi as |
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Naoko Iijima as |
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Mayumi Yamaguchi as |
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Hirosue Ryoko as |
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Eita Nagayama as |
| Directing | Hajime Gonno | Director |
| Writing | Itaru Era | Screenplay |
| Production | Takashi Kimoto | Executive Producer |
| Production | Kazuhiko Hitano | Producer |
| Production | Shigeji Maeda | Producer |
| Crew | Masayoshi Deguchi | Stunt Coordinator |
| Lighting | Kenji Ishida | Gaffer |
| Production | Shigeyuki Endō | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Masashi Yamaguchi | Casting Producer |
| Sound | Koji Endo | Original Music Composer |
| Production | 青木智紀 | Line Producer |
| Directing | Hironori Kubota | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Hiroki Kubota | Assistant Director |