House of Himiko
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Duration | 7/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Aya Watanabe Writer Aya Watanabe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 27, 2005 Cast (Haruhiko), Kou Shibasaki (Saori Yoshida), (Himiko), Shinichi Hatori , Hirokazu Inoue , Junkyu Moriyama Similar movies Joe Odagiri appears in House of Himiko and Bright Future | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
House of Himiko (メゾン・ド・ヒミコ, Mezon do himiko), also known internationally as La Maison de Himiko, is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Isshin Inudo and starring Kō Shibasaki as Saori, Min Tanaka as Saori's father Himiko, and Joe Odagiri as Haruhiko, Himiko's lover. The film was shown at the Japanese film festival in Sydney in December 2006 (as La Maison de Himiko).
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Plot
Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.
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Reception
In 2007, the film won the Nippon Cinema Award at the Nippon Connection Film Festival.
References
House of Himiko WikipediaHouse of Himiko IMDb House of Himiko themoviedb.org