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Karakara (2012)

1h 43m

Running Time

Karakara (2012)

Name: Karakara
Genre: Drama
Released: 2012-08-31

1h 43m

Running Time

Plot.

Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (she?) may take him.

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Cast & Crew.

Gabriel Arcand

Pierre

Youki Kudoh

Junko

Atta Yuichi

Kenichi

John Potter

Brian

Toshi Moromi

Grandma Megaru

Tenyu Okuda

Qi Gong Master

Megumi Tomita

Akemi

Takayuki Ichise

Policeman

Mieko Taira

Self

Toshiko Taira

Self

Claude Gagnon

Director / Writer

Takako Miyahira

Producer

Yukito Ara

Original Music Composer

Michel St-Martin

Director of Photography

Yuri Yoshimura-Gagnon

Executive Producer

Bahija Essoussi

Production Coordinator

Samuel Gagnon

Producer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
August 31, 2012

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 43m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-05-10

This Movie Is About.

japan

okinawa

Wiki.

Karakara is a Canadian drama film, directed by Claude Gagnon and released in 2012. The film stars Gabriel Arcand as Pierre, a professor from Quebec who is on sabbatical in Okinawa to reevaluate his life after the death of his friend, and is drawn into a love affair with Junko (Youki Kudoh), a local woman fleeing an abusive husband who offers to be his tour guide.

The film's screenplay was partially inspired by Gagnon's own trip to Japan following the death of one of his closest friends. The film was shot in 2011, and premiered at the 2012 Montreal World Film Festival.