Light of Africa
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Kenichi Hagiwara
Jun
Yoko Takahashi
Sayoko
Kaori Momoi
Fujiko
Toru Minegishi
Mineichi
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Chief of police
Yoshio Yoshida
Chiyomatsu
Kamatari Fujiwara
Doctor
Naomi Oka
Megumi
Moeko Ezawa
Kumi
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
The movie is honestly pretty incoherent, coming from a fluent speaker of Japanese. But it's charming and Hagiwara and Tanaka give it their all. The soundtrack really sells it, too.
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