The Face of Jizo (2004)

  • NR
  • 07/31/2004 (JP)
  • Drama
  • 1h 39m

Overview

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.

Hisashi Inoue

Writer

Kazuo Kuroki

Director, Screenplay

Cast

Rie Miyazawa's headshot

Rie Miyazawa

Mitsue Fukuyoshi
Yoshio Harada's headshot

Yoshio Harada

Takezou Fukuyoshi
Tadanobu Asano's headshot

Tadanobu Asano

Mr. Kinoshita

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