DOG IN A SIDECAR

Takeuchi plays Yoko, a free-spirited woman who drives around in a German-made Road Racer. The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru (Mimura), a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor (Minori Terada) of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade. Next we see Kaoru (Matsumoto) as she was at that age, living with her obnoxious little brother (Takeru Taniyama), tense housewife Mom (Sawa Suzuki) and feckless Dad (Arata Furuta), who is trying to run a used-car business but getting nowhere fast. Then Mum walks out, apparently never to return. Soon after a strange woman named Yoko (Takeuchi) shows up at the door, saying she has come to make dinner. She is a walking, talking contraction to all the ideas of proper womanhood Kaoru has been taught.

Language: Japanese
Subtitle: NA
Classification: U
Release Date: 18 Jun 2010
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 1 Hour 34 Minutes
Distributor: Golden Screen Cinemas
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Format: 35MM


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