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The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.
Keywords
biography
based on true story
alcoholism
filmmaking
actor
20th century
based on real person
japanese cinema
Casts

Naoto Takenaka
Taiji Tonoyama

Keiko Oginome
Kimie

Hideko Yoshida
Taiji's wife

Nobuko Otowa
Okaji

Yasuhito Hida
Kei Satō
Kagetora Miura
Kei Yamamoto

Yuriko Hirooka
Yoshiko
Yûki Suzuki
Young Yoshiko

Hideyuki Kasahara
Yasuo
Kuriko Namino
Liquor Store Housewife

Mitsuko Baisho

Masayuki Shionoya

Tokuko Watanabe

Eimei Esumi

Yoji Tanaka

Kaneto Shindō

Natsuko Fuji
Nobuo Shimazaki

Nao Omori

Takuji Suzuki
Masakazu Serizawa

Kirina Mano
Woman at Bar

Rinko Kikuchi
Crews

Kaneto Shindō
Writer

Kaneto Shindō
Director

Kaze Shindo
Assistant Director
Yûichi Kanemaru
Assistant Director
Tatsumi Nikamoto
Stunts
Etsuko Egawa
Makeup Artist
Shigemori Shigeta
Art Direction
Noriyasu Hirakata
Associate Producer

Hikaru Hayashi
Original Music Composer
Yukio Watanabe
Editor
Yoshiyuki Miyake
Director of Photography
Hiroshi Yamashita
Lighting Technician
Yasuhiro Yamamoto
Assistant Director
Backdrops & Posters
