Talking the Pictures (2019)
Original title: カツベン！
Talking the Pictures is a 2019 Japanese-language comedy movie directed by Masayuki Suō, with a running time of 2h 9m. It stars Ryo Narita, Yuina Kuroshima and Masatoshi Nagase.
Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.
Cast
- Ryo Narita as Shuntaro Sometani
- Yuina Kuroshima as Umeko Kurihara
- Masatoshi Nagase as Shusei Yamaoka
- Kengo Kora as Takayuki Motegi
- Mao Inoue as Kotoe Tachibana
- Takuma Otoo as Torao Yasuda
- Yutaka Takenouchi as Tadayoshi Kimura
- Naoto Takenaka as Tomio Aoki
- Eri Watanabe as Toyoko Aoki
- Fumiyo Kohinata as Shigezo Tachibana
- Yusuke Sugiyama as Iwatetsu
- Minami Kajihara