Top Cast
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Nobuko Otowa
Mino Kawamura
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Taiji Tonoyama
Yoshizo Kawamura
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Rokkō Toura
Saito
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Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Kobayakawa's father
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Rie Yokoyama
Sakiko
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Miki Kojika
Yoshiko Kawamura
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Eiji Okada
Lawyer
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Fumio Watanabe
Lawyer
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Akira Yamanouchi
Umina
Overview
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.
Rating
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