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Women in the Mirror is a french film of genre Drama directed by Yoshishige Yoshida with Mariko Okada

Women in the Mirror (2003)

Kagami no onnatachi

Women in the Mirror
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Length 2h4
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama
Rating70% 3.525173.525173.525173.525173.52517

Women in the Mirror (Japanese: 鏡の女たち, translit. Kagami no onnatachi) is a 2002 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

Synopsis

Aï Kawase, la veuve d'un médecin, vit dans la proche banlieue de Tōkyō avec sa petite-fille, Natsuki. Miwa, la mère de celle-ci, a disparu, sans laisser de traces, vingt-quatre ans auparavant. Un jour, on annonce que l'on a retrouvé une femme, Masako Onoue, arrêté pour le rapt d'une fillette, en possession du livret de famille de Miwa. Mais, Masako est devenue amnésique. Un nom seulement habite encore sa mémoire : celui d'Hiroshima, endeuillée par l'explosion nucléaire en 1945. Les trois femmes vont faire un voyage dans cette ville pour essayer de reconstruire leur histoire...

Actors

Mariko Okada

(Ai Kawase)Yoshiko Tanaka

(Masako)Hideo Murota

(Mr. Goda)Mirai Yamamoto

(The Journalist)
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