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Heaven's Bookstore is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Tetsuo Shinohara with Tetsuji Tamayama
Heaven's Bookstore (2004)
Tengoku no honya
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Add to a movie listHeaven's Bookstore (天国の本屋, 'Tengoku no honya) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara about a struggling classical pianist who is sent to heaven to work in a bookstore. It is based on two novels, written by Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka.
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Kenta (Tetsuji Tamayama), a classically trained pianist, is fired from his orchestra, and gets drunk in a bar. He wakes up the following morning in what turns out to be a bookstore in heaven. The owner of the bookstore had brought him there, and explains that people live to be 100; people who die before this age go to heaven to live out the rest of their allotted time, before they are reborn on earth.Actors
Tetsuji Tamayama
(Kenta)
Yūko Takeuchi
(Shoko / Natsuko)
Yoshio Harada
(Yamaki)
Teruyuki Kagawa
(Takimoto)
Kyōko Kagawa
(Sachi Hiyama)
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