Kikyo
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- Movie: Going Home
- Romaji: Kikyo
- Japanese: 帰郷
- Director: Koji Hagiuda
- Writer: Koji Hagiuda, Go Riju
- Producer:
- Cinematography:
- Release Date: June 11, 2005
- Runtime: 82 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Haruo (Hidetoshi Nishijima) ... is living a classic life of quiet desperation when his flighty, chirpy mom (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) in the countryside suddenly calls him home. She is about to marry, for the second time, and wants her son to witness the happy occasion. Which he dutifully, if reluctantly, does.
Now what? He no longer belongs, has little desire to stay. On the night of the wedding, he goes to bar run by a high-school senpai (Ken Mitsuishi) and finds Miyuki (Reiko Kataoka), a former lover, behind the counter. She had also left town, in circumstances Haruo finds painful to recall, but is now back, a single mom, raising a 7-year-old daughter and holding down two jobs.
For Haruo, however, she is still the flame that never went out. Another lost, lonely soul, she feels the same heat -- and a random encounter turns into a passionate after-hours reunion. Miyuki invites Haruo to visit her apartment at noon the next day and meet her daughter, Chiharu (Reiai Moriyama). He shows up on time, but only Chiharu is there. A cute, sullen kid, she tells him gruffly that the mom is working at the supermarket. Together they set off to find her -- but no one at the supermarket has seen her. -- Japan Times
Cast
- Akiko Aitsuki
- Atsushi Ito
- Reiko Kataoka - Miyuki
- Ken Mitsuishi
- Reio Moriyama
- Hidetoshi Nishijima - Haruo
- Nobuhiro Suwa
- Guadalcanal Taka
- Choei Takahashi
- Kazuko Yoshiyuki
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