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 One day he encounters an insurance saleswoman, a single mother with a withdrawn son.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 |
| Production | Takashi Kimoto | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Hajime Gonno | Director |
| Production | Kazuhiko Hitano | Producer |
| Production | Shigeji Maeda | Producer |
| Writing | Itaru Era | Screenplay |
| 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 | Tomonori Aoki | Line Producer |
| Directing | Hiroki Kubota | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Hiroki Kubota | Assistant Director |