Karakara (2012)
1h 43m
Running Time
August 31, 2012Release Date
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.
Youki Kudoh
Nakamura, Junko
Gabriel Arcand
Pierre / Old Canadian
John Potter
Brian
Megumi Tomita
Akemi
Toshi Moromi
Grandma Megaru
Atta Yuichi
Kenichi
Tenyu Okuda
Qi Gong Master
Claude Gagnon
Director
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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.