Yellow Tears

Yellow Tears

2007•2h 8m•5.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.0/10(3)

The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.

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Production

J Storm

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Sho Sakurai

Sho Sakurai

Ryuzo Mukai

Masaki Aiba

Masaki Aiba

Shoichi Inoue

Kazunari Ninomiya

Kazunari Ninomiya

Eisuke Muraoka

Satoshi Ohno

Satoshi Ohno

Kei Shimokawa

Jun Matsumoto

Jun Matsumoto

Yuji Katsumada

Yuu Kashii

Yuu Kashii

Tokie

Hanae Kan

Hanae Kan

Yasuko Muraoka

Seiko Iwaido

Seiko Iwaido

Yumiko

Kin Sugai

Kin Sugai

Yone

Kotaro Shiga

Kotaro Shiga

Hayashida

Hirotaro Honda

Hirotaro Honda

Teikichi

Tomoko Tabata

Tomoko Tabata

Kaoru Nishigaki

Chieko Matsubara

Chieko Matsubara

Kinu Muraoka

Mariko Wordell

Mikako Yoshino

Yojin Hino

Yojin Hino

Hiroshi Yamamoto

Hiroshi Yamamoto

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