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The Kiss is a film of genre Drama directed by Kunitoshi Manda with Etsushi Toyokawa
The Kiss (2007)
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Add to a movie listThe Kiss (Japanese: 接吻) is a 2007 Japanese crime drama film directed by Kunitoshi Manda, starring Eiko Koike, Etsushi Toyokawa and Toru Nakamura.
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Kyoko Endo (Eiko Koike), a young and lonely female office worker, falls in love with Akio Sakaguchi (Etsushi Toyokawa), a man in prison for killing a whole family, at first sight when she watches a television news program telling about him. But Hasegawa (Toru Nakamura), his lawyer, worries about their relationship.Actors
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