27 Sep 2008
Tokyo Sonata
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his father loses his job.
Patience Has An End
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
Top Billed Cast
高倉健 Isamu Tekada
奈美悦子 
Yoko Hayama 
山本麟一 
北林谷栄 
渡辺文雄 
由利徹 
田中春男 
月丘千秋 Chizuko Nogami 
Kyoko Kamimura 
穂積隆信 
近藤宏 
関山耕司 
汐路章 
加藤嘉 
南利明 
志村喬 Naruhiko Umechi Kazuko Kamei
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