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Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky

7.0 120 mins Drama   2007
Akanezora   OLC / Rights Entertainment  
Director(s): Masaki Hamamoto

A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences between the two ancient capitals including the favored taste of tofu itself, they eventually marry and become the owner of a tofu shop on a more respectable street. Behind the rock-solid business of Kyo-ya, their son, Eitaro bears the brunt of other tofu shops' animosity toward Kyo-ya's refusal to comply with Edo's way of running business and starts to frequent a gambling hall run by the mysterious "Boss", which throws the family into a critical situation that threaten to pull them apart...

Casts of Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky

Seiyo Uchino

as Eikichi / Denzo

Miki Nakatani

as Ofumi

Baijaku Nakamura

as Hirataya

Masanobu Katsumura

as Kajiro

Shigeru Izumiya

as Genji

Kazue Tsunogae

as Omitsu

Renji Ishibashi

as Seibe

Shima Iwashita

as Oshino

Kouhei Takeda

as Eitaro

Miyu Yagyu

as Okimi

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