Hanging Garden Plot
For his fourth full feature, Toyoshi Toyoda has abandoned the theme of the angry young man, examined in depth in Pornostar, Blue Spring and 9 Souls. Kuchu Teien is, on the face of it, more a drama, a character study, than a typical Toyoda genre flick. Yet within this beautifully structured and photographed film, there lies a dark soul. Ostensibly the story of a happy family, it becomes increasingly clear as the movie progresses that the Kyobashis are anything but. Despite a family agreement that they are all open with each other, the entire household knows the opposite is true.
Hanging Garden Cast
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as Eriko Kyobashi -
as Mana Kyobashi -
as Takashi Kyobashi -
as Ko Kyobashi -
as Eriko's brother -
as Tezuka -
as Sacchin -
as Morisaki -
as Mina -
as Asako Iizuka
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