Gogo no yuigonjo
A Last Note
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(c)1995 Kindai Eiga Kyokai Co., Ltd.
![(c)1995 Kindai Eiga Kyokai Co., Ltd. (c)1995 Kindai Eiga Kyokai Co., Ltd.](http://jfdb.jp/data/photo/movie/3f/a3/1b/3c/a9e4cdcd43c8ef410eaf6558512a886d_640.jpg)
(c)1995 Kindai Eiga Kyokai Co., Ltd.
- Release Date
- June, 3rd, 1995
- Running Time
- 112 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- -
- Screen Size
- Vista
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- SUGIMURA Haruko ── MORIMOTO Yoko
- OTOWA Nobuko ── YANAGAWA Toyoko
- ASAGIRI Kyoko ── USHIKUNI Tomie
[ Staff ]
- SHINDO Kaneto ── Story
- SHINDO Kaneto ── Script
- MIYAKE Yoshiyuki ── Cinematography
- SHIGETA Shigemori ── Art Director
- HAYASHI Hikaru ── Music
[ Production Company ]
KINDAI EIGA KYOKAI
[ Distributor (Japan) ]
KINDAI EIGA KYOKAI
[ Story ]
Like many works of the director's later period, A Last Note grapples with the theme of aging. It focuses on famed (fictional) actor Yoko, whose retreat to her rural summer residence is interrupted by a visit from Tomie, an old friend and former actor suffering from dementia. When Toyoko, Yoko's housemaid, reveals a startling secret, it sets in motion a series of events that leads to the women's lives intersecting in a variety of ways. Loosely adapted from Chekhov's play The Seagull, the film employs a lightness of touch to question what it means to live and grow old; it also marked the last on-screen appearance of actor OTOWA Nobuko (Shindo's wife), who was diagnosed with cancer prior to the film's production. A major hit upon its release in Japan, A Last Note was later adapted into a stage play, also directed by Shindo.
Written by HOSHI Ryotaro
Translated by Adam Sutherland
[ Film Festivals, Awards ]
1995 Moscow Film Festival, Russia film reviewer Jury Prize
[ Contact (International) ]
KINDAI EIGA KYOKAI CO., LTD.
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