Toad's Oil
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- Movie: Toad's Oil
- Romaji: Gama no Abura
- Japanese: ガマの油
- Director: Koji Yakusho
- Writer: Urara
- Producer:
- Cinematography: Toyomichi Kurita
- Release Date: June 6, 2009
- Runtime: 131 Min
- Studio: Pyramid Film
- Distributor: Phantom Film
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), teenage son Tetsuya (Eita) - who dreams of becoming an astronaut. The family is also joined by Saburo Akiba (Junichi Sawayashiki), a good-natured teen recently released from a juvenile corrections facility. Then one day Tetsuya falls into a coma from a car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son Tokuya ...
Cast
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| Koji Yakusho | Eita | Satomi Kobayashi | Junichi Sawayashiki | Fumi Nikaido | Kaoru Yachigusa |
| Takuro Yazawa | Tetsuya | Terumi | Saburo Akiba | Hikari | Hikari's grandmother |
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Film Festivals
- 2009 (34th) Toronto International Film Festival - September 10th-19th - Discovery
- 2009 (28th) Vancouver International Film Festival - October 1st-16th - Dragons and Tigers
- 2009 (14th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 8th-16th - A Window on Asian Cinema
- 2010 (39th) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 27th-Feb. 7th - Bright Future
- 2010 (10th) Nippon Connection - April 14-19 - Nippon Cinema *German Premiere
- 2010 (9th) Asian Film Festival of Dallas - July 23-29, 2010 *U.S. Premiere
