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Cold Fever is a islandais film of genre Drama directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson with Masatoshi Nagase
Cold Fever (1995)
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Add to a movie listCold Fever (Icelandic: Á köldum klaka) is a 1995 Icelandic film directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. It is a road movie set in Iceland and was the first of Friðrik's films to be made in the English language. The movie depicts the travels of a Japanese man across Iceland. It was jokingly promoted as the best Icelandic-Japanese road movie of 1995.
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Hirata (Masatoshi Nagase) is a successful Japanese businessman whose plan for a two-week winter holiday in Hawaii to play golf changes when his elderly grandfather (Seijun Suzuki) reminds him that he should go to Iceland.Actors
Masatoshi Nagase
(Hirata)
Lili Taylor
(Jill)
Fisher Stevens
(Jack)
Seijun Suzuki
(Hirata's Grandfather)
Gísli Halldórsson
(Siggi)
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