Love and the Grand Tug-of-war (2020)
Following the 2009 financial crash, Waseda University graduate Takeshi lost his job in Tokyo and retreated to his family home in Sendai. While he resumed his role as heir to the family construction company with a diligent attitude, his hidebound father resents that his son left and that at the age of 35 Takeshi is still single. However, wider events will force father and son to overcome their differences as the Otsunahiki, a great tug-of-war featuring thousands of participants, will pull them together in a family tradition just as Takeshi meets Jiheyun, a beautiful Korean doctor on an exchange programme... The ties of family bind people tightly as characters struggle with the push of their own ambitious urges and the pull of family commitments but the Otsunahiki ropes things together in a family drama rich with events and the culture of Sendai, that will tug and the heartstrings of viewers whilst providing to the desire to visit the beautiful and storied region.
Director:
Kiyoshi Sasabe
Writer:
Takashi Shinohara
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Takahiro Miura as Takeshi |
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Kang Ji-young as Yeo Ji-hyun |
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Manami Higa as |
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Ikki Sawamura as |
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Mako Ishino as |
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Seishiro Nishida as |
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Yuichi Nakamura as |
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Wakana Matsumoto as |
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Mayumi Asaka as |
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Takeshi Masu as |
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Norihito Kaneko as |
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Yuta Kanai as |
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Mitsunori Isaki as |
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Megumi Abe as |
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Hitomi Tsukikage as |
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IchirÅ Ogura as |
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Toshiaki Megumi as |
| Directing | Kiyoshi Sasabe | Director |
| Crew | Shin Hayasaka | Cinematography |
| Writing | Takashi Shinohara | Screenplay |
| Sound | Harumi Fuuki | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Yumiko Kuga | Casting |
| Art | Kobe Shinji | Decorator |