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The Face of Jizo

Film200499 min7.0/10 on TMDB

Directed by Kazuo Kuroki

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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.Read moreLess

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.

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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.

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Cast & crew

Rie MiyazawaRie MiyazawaMitsue Fukuyoshi
Yoshio HaradaYoshio HaradaTakezou Fukuyoshi
Tadanobu AsanoTadanobu AsanoMr. Kinoshita
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Director
Kazuo Kuroki
Screenplay
Kazuo Kuroki
Director of Photography
Tatsuo Suzuki
Original Music Composer
Teizō Matsumura
Original Music Composer
Yukio Kubota
Producer
Satoshi Kono