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Beauty (2009 film)

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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
Japanese

Director
  
Toshio Goto

Music director
  
Reijiro Koroku

Country
  
Japan

Release date
  
March 14, 2009 (2009-03-14)

Writer
  
Toimi Kikuhara (screenplay), Ryunosuke Ono (screenplay)

Screenplay
  
Ryunosuke Ono, Toimi Kikuhara

Cast
  
Ainosuke Kataoka
(Yukio Katsuragi),
Takataro Kataoka
(Hanji Ogura),
Kumiko Aso
(Utako Higashiura),
Hisashi Igawa
,
Asae Oonishi
(Hisako Katsuragi)

Similar movies
  
The Sinners of Hell (1960), Stray Dog (1949), The Burning Sky (1940), The Life of Oharu (1952), Bullet Train (1975)

Beauty is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Toshio Gotō. The film explores themes of love, beauty, kabuki, and the strength of human spirit. It was entered into the 31st Moscow International Film Festival.

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Plot

Film is set in a small village of Ina (伊那) district, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, in the 1930s. Hanji, a young boy, sees the performance of a kabuki(歌舞伎) for the first time as a dedication event in the village. He is fascinated by the performance of Yukio, a character as young as Hanji, who dances as "Tenryu Koishibuki".

He begins to learn the Kabuki with Yukio and Utako, a girl friend, and soon becomes an excellent actor.

One day in 1944, Hanji and Yukio received the draft cards. The tide of the war was against Japan. The village people held the final stage of the Kabuki for the two young men who might never return there again. After war was over, Japan was defeated. Hanji and Yukio survived the war, but they were detained in Siberia by USSR.

A few years after, only Hanji could return to the village and met Utako again. He saw that the village people were utterly dejected by the war. Hanji decided that he would revive the Kabuki and the village.

In the 1980s, Hanji is aware that he is near the end of his life. The village people hold the final performance of Kabuki for Hanji, and he dances "Tenryu Koishibuki" for Yukio.

Cast

  • Takataro Kataoka as Hanji
  • Ainosuke Kataoka as Yukio
  • Kumiko Aso as Utako
  • References

    Beauty (2009 film) Wikipedia
    Beauty (2009 film) IMDb