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Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy. Tsuji has stunted flipper-like arms amputated at the behest of a father who deserted her soon after her birth. Nonetheless, the resourceful Noriko uses her feet to accomplish most of the tasks others would do with their hands.Read moreLess
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy. Tsuji has stunted flipper-like arms amputated at the behest of a father who deserted her soon after her birth. Nonetheless, the resourceful Noriko uses her feet to accomplish most of the tasks others would do with their hands.
The story
Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy. Tsuji has stunted flipper-like arms amputated at the behest of a father who deserted her soon after her birth. Nonetheless, the resourceful Noriko uses her feet to accomplish most of the tasks others would do with their hands.
Cast & crew
Misako WatanabeHarue Matsubara
Fumie KashiyamaCast
Hajime IzuCast
Mizuho SuzukiCast
Masami ShimojōCast
Mitsue SuzukiCast
Kan MikamiCast
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Hiroyuki NagatoHarue's husbandExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Zenzō Matsuyama
- Director
- Zenzō Matsuyama
- Director of Photography
- Shigeru Ishihara
- Original Music Composer
- Ken'ichirō Morioka
- Editor
- Koichi Sonoi