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By Player (2000)
Directed by Kaneto Shindō
Overview
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama’s alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.
Length 126 minutes
Actors
Naoto Takenaka | Keiko Oginome | Hideko Yoshida | Nobuko Otowa | Yasuhito Hida | Kagetora Miura | Yuriko Hirooka | Yûki Suzuki | Hideyuki Kasahara | Kuriko Namino | Mitsuko Baisho | Masayuki Shionoya | Tokuko Watanabe | Eimei Esumi | Yoji Tanaka | Kaneto Shindō | Natsuko Fuji | Nobuo Shimazaki | Nao Omori | Takuji Suzuki | Reita Serizawa | Kirina Mano | Rinko Kikuchi