Until the Lights Come Back

Until the Lights Come Back

2005•2h 12m•6.0/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(6)

A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

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Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Etsushi Toyokawa

Etsushi Toyokawa

Shinichi Kido

Tomoko Tabata

Tomoko Tabata

Nozomi Kanou

Tomorowo Taguchi

Tomorowo Taguchi

Ryotaro Saeki

Tomoyo Harada

Tomoyo Harada

Saeki's wife

Koji Kikkawa

Koji Kikkawa

Gingi

Shinobu Terajima

Shinobu Terajima

Reiko

Haruka Igawa

Haruka Igawa

Misuzo

Tsuyoshi Abe

Tsuyoshi Abe

Dong-Dong

Kanata Hongo

Kanata Hongo

Shota

Yuu Kashii

Yuu Kashii

Maiko

Tōru Shinagawa

Tōru Shinagawa

Ryotaro's father

Chikage Awashima

Chikage Awashima

Ken Utsui

Ken Utsui

Kanau Yoshikazu

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