15 Sep 1999
American Beauty
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
The Ceremony
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Top Billed Cast
河原崎建三 Sakurada Masuo
Atsuko Kaku Sakurada Ritsuko
中村敦夫 Tachibana Terumichi
乙羽信子 Sakurada Shizu
小松方正 Sakurada Isamu
戸浦六宏 Sakurada Mamoru
渡辺文雄 Susumu
河原崎しづ江 Sakurada Tomiko
原知佐子 Isamu's flower girl
Maki Takayama Sakurada Kiku
三戸部スエ Sakurada Chiyo
小沢栄太郎 Tachibana Takeyo
殿山泰司 Old Chief
小山明子 Setsuko
佐藤慶 Sakurada Kazuomi, Grandfather
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