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April Story is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Takeshi Kitano with Takako Matsu
April Story (1998)
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Add to a movie listApril Story (Japanese and Chinese: 四月物語) is a Japanese short film directed by Shunji Iwai starring Takako Matsu.
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Uzuki Nireno, a shy girl from the countryside of northern Hokkaidō, leaves her family and gets on a train bound for Tokyo so she can attend the university of her choice; to be near the boy she fell in love with, who moved to Tokyo from her hometown.Actors
Takako Matsu
(Uzuki Nireno)
Seiichi Tanabe
(Yamazaki)
Matsumoto Kōshirō IX
(le père d'Uzuki)
Kanji Tsuda
(Fukatsu)
Ken Mitsuishi
(Salaryman)
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