Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
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- Movie: Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
- Romaji: Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san
- Japanese: 眞夜中の彌次さん喜多さん
- Director: Kankuro Kudo
- Writer: Kotobuki Shiriagari, Kankuro Kudo
- Producer:
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: April 2, 2005
- Runtime: 124 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Set in the Edo period, Yaji and Kita are two flamboyant, homosexual down-and-out losers. Both desperately yearn to escape their dull existence and surroundings, so by chance when they receive a flyer promoting a location in Ise known as the Ice Sanctuary, Yaji suggests they should leave at once on a pilgrimage there. A journey they hope will lead to happiness and Yaji being able to kick his drug habit.
Cast
- Tomoya Nagase - Yajirobei
- Shichinosuke Nakamura - Kitahachi
- Sadao Abe - Kin-kin
- Aja
- YosiYosi Arakawa - Spirit of the Dead
- Arata - The Bartender
- Kumiko Aso - The Wife of the Bartender
- Tasuku Emoto - Non-non
- Arata Furuta - Shimizu no Jirocho
- Itsuji Itao - Naniwa Hotto
- Ryo Iwamatsu - The Foreman
- Naoko Ken - Datsueba
- Eiko Koike - O-Hatsu
- Kazuma Kuwabata - Naniwa Sando
- Ayaka Maeda - Schoolgirl
- Suzuki Matsuo - Bearded Oiran
- Sarutoki Minagawa - Vendor
- Aiko Morishita - Landlady
- Kankuro Nakamura - King Arthur
- Katsuhisa Namase - The Newsdealer
- Hiroaki Ogi - The Tourist
- Nao Omori - Tortured Samurai
- Akiko Saito
- Yumi Shimizu - O-Yuki
- Kotobuki Shiriagari - Owner of the CD Store
- Riki Takeuchi - Shonoshin Kimura
- Susumu Terajima - The Policeman
- Satoshi Tsumabuki - The Phantom Yaijrobei
- Kazuo Umezu - The old man drinking tea
- Asami Usuda
- Ken Yahagi - The Tourist
- Tomomitsu Yamaguchi - O-Chin
