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Usagi Drop

Usagi doroppu

Japan

2011

114 Min
Color
2.35:1
Japanese
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DIR Hiroyuki Tanaka

SCR Yumi Unita, Tamio Hayashi

DP Hiro'o Yanagida

CAST Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Mana Ashida, Mirei Kiritani, Mayu Kitaki, Karina, Chizuru Ikewaki, Jun Fubuki, Ryô Kimura, Baijaku Nakamura, Ruiki Sato, Go Ayano, Atsuko Takahata

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Chicago (World Cinema)

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27-year-old Daikichi (Ken’ichi Matsuyama) is a single young man who is trusted by his peers at work. Daikichi then attends his grandfather’s funeral. At the funeral the attendees learn that Daikichi’s grandfather bore an illegitimate daughter with an unknown mother. The girl’s name is Rin (Mana Ashida) and she is just six years old. Everybody in Daikichi’s family looks at the girl as an embarrassment and wants no part of her. Daikichi, annoyed by his family’s attitude, decides to raise Rin by himself. Daikichi has no experience in raising a child. He soon learns the difficulties in raising a child as a single parent … (alternative title: Bunny Drop). —asianmediawiki.com

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Hiroyuki Tanaka

Sabu (サブ Sabu?, born November 18, 1964) is the pseudonym of Japanese actor and director Hiroyuki Tanaka (田中博行[ Tanaka Hiroyuki?).

Born in Wakayama Prefecture, Sabu studied at an Osaka fashion school before deciding to go to Tokyo to become a professional musician. It was suggested he try acting and in 1986 he made his film debut in Sorobanzuku. He earned his first starring role in the 1991 World Apartment Horror, a live-action film directed by Katsuhiro Ōtomo of Akira fame. Working from a script he wrote himself, he made his directorial debut with the 1996 Dangan Runner, a film that set his early style of “quirky action-comedies propelled by characters who hurtle headlong though squirming narratives steered more by the forces of incidence and coincidence than the actions of the protagonists themselves.” Shin’ichi Tsutsumi played the lead in Sabu’s first five films. Blessing Bell, starring Susumu Terajima (who has played minor roles in nearly all of Sabu’s films), was a turn away… read more

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Paolo Simeone

25Mar12

Marchettona di Sabu nel settore puccioso, sempre prodigo di film da quelle parti. Ben svolto.

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Glim Ho

21Feb12

这份责任和骄傲,不是真正的爸爸,你不了解啊不了解

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Review: USAGI DROP (Hiroyuki Tanaka)

By Twitchfilm.com on April 3, 2012
Even though Hiroyuki Tanaka (Monday, Kanikosen) is a certainty in my selection of favorite directors, the past few years Tanaka has been struggling to find his way (much like the rest of the Japanese film
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Full Trailer For Sabu's USAGI DROP

By Twitchfilm.com on September 26, 2011
[Previous post updated with full trailer.]Though it’s been a little while since Sabu – surely one of Japan’s most distinctive film talents – has had the chance to direct from one of his own scripts the
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