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Synopsis. You are the one I’m guarding. I’ll protect you with my life. Biwako is a vain, middle-aged actress who witnesses a brutal murder. Realizing that the very public life of the woman makes their sole witness vulnerable to the killers, the police assign two officers to safeguard her until the trial. In the interim, the lives of Biwako ...
Sep 27, 1997 · Woman in Witness Protection: Directed by Jûzô Itami. With Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Nishimura, Yuji Murata, Kazuya Takahashi. A vain actress who witnessed a serious crime is guarded by 2 cops as she goes about her daily affairs.
Juzo Itami’s final film features a dazzling performance from his wife and frequent leading lady Nobuko Miyamoto as Biwako, a middle-aged movie-star diva who is the sole witness to a grisly murder. When she is convinced to play bait for the killer, two cops are assigned to protect her, one who is a superfan and the other who couldn’t care ...
Directed by Juzo Itami • 1995 • Japan Starring Atsuro Watanabe, Hinako Saeki, Masayuki Imai Based on a novel by Nobel prizewinner Kenzaburo Oe (the brother-in-law of director Juzo Itami) this radically empathetic melodrama—inspired by the story of the writer’s own children—evokes the world of a mentally handicapped young man (Atsuro Watabe) and his devoted sister (Hinako Saeki), who ...
Aug 11, 2020 · Internationally known for his ‘noodle western’ Tampopo (1985), Mr. Itami directed ten feature films between 1984 and his tragic suicide in 1997 (though contentious theories claim that it’s murder). A distinct satirist, Itami’s works thought-provokingly as well as hilariously questioned what it means to be Japanese in the modern world ...
Apr 26, 2017 · The man in white (Kôji Yakusho) provides a lesson in movie-going etiquette. Juzo Itami’s second feature, Tampopo (1985), is a comedy so prodigiously loaded with ideas that it’s either surprising or inevitable that it became an international hit. The film begins in a movie theatre, the camera tracking back as a man and woman dressed in ...
Jul 25, 2013 · Katsumata’s lover, Yasuko Watanabe’s murder happened on March 8, 1997. Everybody’s eyes were on the mysterious murder case. Everybody’s eyes were on the mysterious murder case. But on May 24 and 25, 1997, horror murder cases ‘KOBE CHILD MURDER’ occurred , a boy’s head was placed on the wall of a junior high school at Kobe city.
