The Face of Jizo (2004)
1h 39m
Running Time
July 31, 2004Release Date
Plot.
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
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Cast & Crew.
Rie Miyazawa
Mitsue
Yoshio Harada
Takezou
Tatsuo Suzuki
Director of Photography
Tadanobu Asano
Kinoshita
Kazuo Kuroki
Director
Yoshiyuki Okuhara
Editor
Hisashi Inoue
Writer
Tetsuo Ohya
Visual Effects Producer
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The Face of Jizo (父と暮せば, Chichi to Kuraseba) is a 2004 Japanese war drama film directed by Kazuo Kuroki and starring Rie Miyazawa, Yoshio Harada and Tadanobu Asano. It is based on the play of the same name by Hisashi Inoue. It was the 3rd and final film of Kazuo Kuroki's War Requiem trilogy, following Tomorrow (1988) and A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2002)
The story follows a young woman, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and her attempts to forge a relationship with a young man while mourning the death of her father in the atomic bombing.