The Last Dance (1993)
May 29, 1993Release Date
The Last Dance (1993)
May 29, 1993Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Rentaro Mikuni
Buhei Mikai
Masahiko Tsugawa
Dr. Ogata
Nobuko Miyamoto
Buhei's wife
Yoshiki Arizono
Actor
Tokie Hidari
Patient's Wife
Jūzō Itami
Director
Zenpaku Kato
Radiographer
Seigo Hosogoe
Producer
Seigo Hosogoe
Producer
Midori Kiuchi
Nurse
Yasushi Tamaoki
Producer
Mami Kumagai
Props Master
Toshiyuki Honda
Composer
Noboru Mitani
Old Man
Yonezō Maeda
Cinematographer
Takehiro Murata
Doctor
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Daibyonin (大病人, Daibyōnin, literally "patient in serious condition"), also known as The Last Dance and more rarely The Seriously Ill, is a 1993 Japanese film directed by Juzo Itami about the final year of a successful film director suffering from cancer.
The film can be seen as a criticism of the traditional attitudes of Japanese doctors to their patients, especially the withholding of information from patients with terminal illnesses, which Itami saw as "a violation of human rights". It also touches on other end-of-life issues for the terminally ill, and how Japanese society deals with both life and death.
The film's cast includes Rentarō Mikuni (Buhei Mukai, the film director), Masahiko Tsugawa (Doctor Ogata) and Nobuko Miyamoto (Buhei's wife). Mikuni was nominated for Best Actor at the 1994 Japanese Academy Awards for his role in both Daibyonin and Tsuribaka nisshi 6.
During a May 1993 showing of the film in Japan, a cinema screen was slashed by a right-wing protester.