Yellow Tears (2007)
Original title: 黄色い涙
Yellow Tears is a 2007 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Isshin Inudo, with a running time of 2h 8m. It stars Sho Sakurai, Masaki Aiba and Kazunari Ninomiya.
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji, the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.
Cast
- Sho Sakurai as Ryuzo Mukai
- Masaki Aiba as Shoichi Inoue
- Kazunari Ninomiya as Eisuke Muraoka
- Satoshi Ohno as Kei Shimokawa
- Jun Matsumoto as Yuji Katsumada
- Yuu Kashii as Tokie
- Hanae Kan as Yasuko Muraoka
- Seiko Iwaido as Yumiko
- Kin Sugai as Yone
- Kotaro Shiga as Hayashida
- Hirotaro Honda as Teikichi
- Tomoko Tabata as Kaoru Nishigaki