Bandage (2010)
1h 59m
Running Time
January 16, 2010Release Date
Bandage (2010)
1h 59m
Running Time
January 16, 2010Release Date
Plot.
Set in the 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, the film tells the tale of a girl in high school, Asako, who goes to a concert and meets Natsu, vocalist of the new band LANDS. Asako ends up being the band manager, but as the band's popularity starts to soar, the band's friendship begins to suffer.
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Cast & Crew.
Jin Akanishi
Natsu Takasugi
Kie Kitano
Asako Suzuki
Yuki Shibamoto
Arumi Suzuhata
Kengo Kora
Yukiya
Nobuaki Kaneko
Ryuji
Ayumi Ito
Nobuko Yukari
Anne Watanabe
Miharu
Takeshi Kobayashi
Director
Chika Kan
Writer
Shunji Iwai
Writer
Hideyuki Kasahara
Kenji Yamane
Takuya Ito
Producer
Seiji Okuda
Producer
Hiroyuki Ueno
Producer
Yohei Taneda
Decorator
Akihiko Kaku
Sound Recordist
Media.
Details.
Release DateJanuary 16, 2010
Original NameBANDAGE バンデイジ
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 59m
Genres
Wiki.
Bandage (バンデイジ, bandeiji), stylized as BANDAGE, is a 2010 Japanese independent film directed by Takeshi Kobayashi, who also served as the editor, producer and composer and written and produced by Shunji Iwai. Based on the original novel Good Dreams (グッドドリームズ, guddodorīmuzu) by Chika Kan, Iwai adapted it along with Kan and renamed it Bandage.
The movie title has actually two meanings, a literal one, which is a play on the words "Band Age", because the story takes place in Japan's early 1990s, the boom of indie rock bands. And a figurative one, in which a certain character uses music as a "bandage" to heal the feeling of worthlessness.