Hanging Garden

Hanging Garden

Kûchû teien
🎞️ Movie 114 min JP
โ˜… 7.1 /10 2005

If you stick to your story, it stops being a lie. When you get obsessed, you shut out reality.

For his fourth full feature, Toyoshi Toyoda has abandoned the theme of the angry young man, examined in depth in Pornostar, Blue Spring and 9 Souls. Kuchu Teien is, on the face of it, more a drama, a character study, than a typical Toyoda genre flick. Yet within this beautifully structured and photographed film, there lies a dark soul. Ostensibly the story of a happy family, it becomes increasingly clear as the movie progresses that the Kyobashis are anything but. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.

Cast

Kyôko Koizumi
Kyôko Koizumi
Eriko Kyobashi
Anne Suzuki
Anne Suzuki
Mana Kyobashi
Itsuji Itao
Itsuji Itao
Takashi Kyobashi
Masahiro Hirota
Masahiro Hirota
Ko Kyobashi
Jun Kunimura
Jun Kunimura
Eriko's brother
Eita Nagayama
Eita Nagayama
Tezuka
Asami Imajuku
Asami Imajuku
Sacchin
Ryô Katsuji
Ryô Katsuji
Morisaki
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Sonim
Mina
Hiromi Nagasaku
Hiromi Nagasaku
Asako Iizuka
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Kazuhide Yamaji
Composer
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Jun'ichi Fujisawa
Cinematographer