Mr. Ogata lives a complicated life: he's is a pornographer making two skin flicks per day and trying to stay beneath the radar screen of the local mob; he deeply loves his ailing wife Haru who's cursed by the restless spirit of her dead first husband; he also has a mistress, a step-son who wants to go to university, and a step-daughter entering adolescence. He lusts after his step-daughter, and he asks Haru if he can marry her. Haru agrees to his plan, signs over her business to him, and a crisis ensues when Ogata uses her nest egg to buy equipment so he and his pals can set up their own film processing lab. Surreal images and events weave their way into Ogata's life.
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Shoichi Ozawa | Ogata(Subu) |
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Sumiko Sakamoto | Haru |
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Keiko Sagawa | Keiko |
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Masaomi Kondo | Koichi |
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Haruo Tanaka | Banteki |
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Ganjirô Nakamura | Elderly Executive |
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Chocho Miyako | Brothel Madame |
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Ko Nishimura | Sanada |
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Ichirô Sugai | Shinun |
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Shinichi Nakano | Kabo |
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Kazuo Kitamura | Doctor |
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Asao Uchida | Furukawa |
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Taiji Tonoyama | |
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Jun Hamamura | |
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Kin Sugai | |
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Sayoko Kinoshita | |
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Kayako Sono | |
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Shôzô Fukuyama | |
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Tokushichi Ogura | |
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Yasuko Nishioka | |
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Akiji Kobayashi | |
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Shuntaro Tamamura | |
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Hyôe Enoki | |
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Tomo Fukuchi | |
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Tetsu Furuya |
| Director | Shohei Imamura |
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| Writer | Akiyuki Nosaka, Shohei Imamura, Koji Numata | |
| Producer | Shohei Imamura, Jiro Tomoda, Kazuya Yamamoto | |
| Musician | Toshiro Kusunoki, Toshirô Mayuzumi | |
| Photography | Shinsaku Himeda | |
| Edition | Criterion |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital Mono [English] SUB [English] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Aug 05, 2003 |
| Regions | 1 |