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The Face of Jizo

6.7 99 mins Drama   2004
Director(s): Kazuo Kuroki

Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.

Casts of The Face of Jizo

Rie Miyazawa

as Mitsue Fukuyoshi

Yoshio Harada

as Takezou Fukuyoshi

Tadanobu Asano

as Mr. Kinoshita

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