A Quiet Life

Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburō Ōe's masterpiece now blossoms with the music of Hikari Ōe.

Original title: 静かな生活

Duration: 121 min

Release date: 1995-09-23

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A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.

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静かな生活

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Tsutomu Yamazaki

Tsutomu Yamazaki

as Weather Forecast

Nobuko Miyamoto

Nobuko Miyamoto

as Danto's Wife

Yoshiyuki Omori

Yoshiyuki Omori

as Water Bottle Man

as Neighbor's Wife

Shinobu Kawamata

Shinobu Kawamata

Chōei Takahashi

Chōei Takahashi

as Police Officer

as Sewage Owner

as Man Drinking Wine

as Mrs. Kurokawa

as Young Boy in the Novel

as Man in the Novel

as Young Girl in the Novel

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Naotsugu Kawaguchi

Naotsugu Kawaguchi

Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

Masatoshi Saito

Masatoshi Saito

Sound Effects Editor

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