07 Feb 1963
This Sporting Life
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
Our Departures
Akira is widowed and left with a pre-teen stepson. Travelling with him to her late husband's hometown, she meets her odd father-in-law and yet decides to make a go of living and working there. She attends training and joins the railway company where her father-in-law works and her late man dreamt of ending up as a child.
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有村架純 Akira Okuzono
國村隼 Setsuo Okuzono
宮内ひとみ Yuri Sasaki
Ryusei Kiyama Shunya Okuzono
木下ほうか Masaki Aiba
筒井真理子 Yukie Kusunoki
板尾創路 Toru Mizushima
青木崇高 Shuhei Okuzono
水橋研二 Yuri's Lover
小久保寿人 Nakaizumi Tamotsu
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