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RUNTIME
Did you know
87 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
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Cast
Kensaku Maeda
Maju Ozawa
Jun Jiang
Yûki Tanaka
Junichi Kawamoto
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Hiroyuki Nasu
- Writers
- Yoshiyuki Suga, Koganemi Midori, Masanori Morita
- Languages
- Japanese
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Hiroyuki Nasu directs. Masaru Mori behind the camera. Yoshiyuki Okuhara cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in Japanese.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 187 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
- 230 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Hiroyuki Nasu, shot by Masaru Mori. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Editor Yoshiyuki Okuhara shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 6Kensaku Maeda and Maju Ozawa and Jun Jiang carry the top of the cast.
- 7IMDB entry: tt0228790 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 8Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Masaru Mori
- Editing
- Yoshiyuki Okuhara
- Runtime
- 87 min · 1h 27m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- JA
Also by
Hiroyuki Nasu
Key crew
- Original StoryMasanori Morita
- Art DirectionHiroshi Wada
- Lighting DirectorMasao Torigoe
- EditorYoshiyuki Okuhara
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1996-02-24