Gabai Granny
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- Movie: Gabai Granny
- Romaji: Saga no gabai-baachan
- Japanese: 佐賀のがばいばあちゃん佐賀のがばいばあちゃん
- Director: Hitoshi Kurauchi
- Writer: Yoshichi Shimada, Kiyota Yamamoto
- Producer:
- Cinemotagraphy: Miyoshi Yasuhiko
- Release Date: June 3, 2006
- Runtime: 104 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
[edit] Plot
Set in a rural village in southern japan in the late 1950s, the film tells the story of "gabai“ (or "super“) Granny and her grandson Akihiro, who ends up living with her for eight years. Granny is full of power and an expert at Yamamoto Taro, Suzuki Yôma, positive thinking. Through her, Akihiro learns to find the bright side of their poor postwar life and especially to never give up.
Heartwarming portrait of life in postwar Japan, with legendary Yoshiyuki Kazuko from Oshima Nagisa’s Empire of Senses (1976) as resolute Granny. In the role of the mother Kudoh Youki, who’s achieved international fame in Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) and Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). Based on the bestseller Saga no Gabai Baachan (Gabai Granny from Saga) (2005), in which popular comedian Shimada Yôshichi depicts his childhood memories.
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- Kazuko Yoshiyuki - Ba-chan
- Yuji Miyake - Akihiro as adult
- Youki Kudoh - Mother
- Shinsuke Shimada - Owner of sports shop
- Miyoko Asada - Aunt Masako
- Taro Yamamoto - Teacher Nakano
- Ken Ogata - Tofu shop owner
- Pepe Hozumi - Teacher
- Akinobu Ikeda - Akihiro as an older boy
- Soma Ikeda - Akihiro as a younger boy
- Azumi Ishikawa - Nurse
- Youhachi Shimada - Cleaner
- Yuuma Suzuki - Akihiro as teenager
- Kyota Yoshimori - Police
