
26 Oct 2006

Babel
Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.
Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.
Mio Miyakawa
Ginji Ogata
Makoto Shimamura
Toshihito Arai
Yuu Iseki
Kyosuke Misawa
Kuniko Miyakawa
Jasmine
Kina Ishida
Manager
Nanami Ueno
Public Bath Customer
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