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Tony Takitani is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Jun Ichikawa released in USA on 10 august 2004 with Issei Ogata
Tony Takitani (2005)
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Add to a movie listTony Takitani (トニー滝谷) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Jun Ichikawa, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami.
Synopsis
The film starts by telling the story of Tony's father Takitani Shozaburo, a jazz trombonist from Japan, who spends the Second World War in China. Shozaburo is imprisoned and many of his fellow inmates are executed. He expects he will be executed, and he is shown curled up on the floor of his cell. However, he survives and in 1946 returns to Japan where he marries a distant relative on his mother's side. A year later they have a child, Tony, but Tony's mother dies three days after giving birth to him.Actors
Issei Ogata
(Tony Takitani / Shozaburo Takitani)
Hidetoshi Nishijima
(Narrator)
Rie Miyazawa
(Konuma Eiko / Hisako)
Miho Fujima
(Hisako's Sister)
Haruki Murakami
(2005)
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