I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
Directed by Hideo Onchi
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On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."Read moreLess
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."
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On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."
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Kaori MomoiMitsuko Ishii
Renji IshibashiSoroku Sugihara
Kotoe HatsuiNaoko Ishii
Akira EmotoHirofumi Maruyama
Ittoku KishibeYoshiharu Ishii
Junko TakazawaToshiko Ishii
Kei SatōNakajima
Daijirō HaradaCastExplore the crew
- Editor
- Yoshihiro Araki
- Producer
- Hiroto Kimura
- Writer
- Kyōhei Nakaoka
- Writer
- Hisashi Watanabe
- Producer
- Mitsuru Itô
- Writer
- Hideo Onchi
- Director
- Hideo Onchi
- Director of Photography
- Masahiro Kishimoto
- Director of Photography
- Shoji Ueda