Talking the Pictures

Original title: カツベン！

Duration: 129 min

Release date: 2019-12-13

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Set at a movie theater in a small village around 100 years ago. Silent films are play at the movie theater. A young man aspires to become a benshi, a performer that provides live narration to silent films.

Comedy History Drama

カツベン！

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as Shuntaro Sometani

Yuina Kuroshima

Yuina Kuroshima

as Umeko Kurihara

Masatoshi Nagase

Masatoshi Nagase

as Shusei Yamaoka

as Takayuki Motegi

as Kotoe Tachibana

as Torao Yasuda

Yutaka Takenouchi

Yutaka Takenouchi

as Tadayoshi Kimura

Fumiyo Kohinata

Fumiyo Kohinata

as Shigezo Tachibana

Yusuke Sugiyama

Yusuke Sugiyama

Minami Kajihara

Minami Kajihara

Hitoshi Nonomura

Hitoshi Nonomura

Sosuke Ikematsu

Sosuke Ikematsu

as Buntaro Futagawa

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Kazumi Matsuzawa

Kazumi Matsuzawa

Script Supervisor

Junichi Fujisawa

Junichi Fujisawa

Director of Photography

Jun'ichi Kikuchi

Jun'ichi Kikuchi

Production Design

Original Music Composer

Takao Tsuchimoto

Takao Tsuchimoto

Shintaro Horikawa

Shintaro Horikawa

Associate Producer

Associate Producer

Sound Recordist

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