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About Her Brother is a film of genre Drama directed by Yōji Yamada with Sayuri Yoshinaga
About Her Brother (2010)
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Add to a movie listOtōto (English: Her Younger Brother) is a 2010 film by Yoji Yamada. The first screening of this film outside of Japan was at the closing ceremony of the 60th Berlin Film Festival in 2010. The screening was a special tribute to then 81-year-old Kon Ichikawa, whose films have been invited to the festival several times before.
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^ "Berlin Film Festival: Otôto". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
Synopsis
The story unfolds as the young Koharu (Yū Aoi), the daughter of a pharmacist in a modest neighborhood of Tokyo, is about to get married to the son of a prestigious family, and even before the event everybody is anxious that Tetsuro (Tsurube Shofukutei), the younger brother of Koharu's mother, Ginko (Sayuri Yoshinaga), might join the wedding ceremony, as he is considered to be the black sheep of the family and even Ginko and Koharu consider him to be an embarrassment, even though he has lived with the family for quite some time after the death of Koharu's father.Actors
Sayuri Yoshinaga
(Ginko)
Shōfukutei Tsurube II
Yu Aoi
(Koharu)
Yuriko Ishida
(Chiaki Komiyama)
Ryō Kase
(Toru Nagata)
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