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Moonlight Mask (2011)
Directed by Itsuji Itao
Overview
The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka (comedic story-teller), Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark rakugo, “Sokotsunagaya”.
Length 102 minutes
Actors
Itsuji Itao | Tadanobu Asano | Satomi Ishihara | Gin Maeda | Seiji Rokkaku | Tasuku Emoto | Taro Yabe | Yasuomi Sano | Shôta Chiyo | Yuichi Kimura | Kanji Tsuda | Jun Kunimura | Hiroyuki Miyasako | Houka Kinoshita | Toshie Negishi | Mitsuru Hirata | Yui Murata