Sideways (2009 film)

Saidoweizu
サイドウェイズ Sideways
Directed by	Cellin Gluck
Screenplay by	Uesugi Takayuki
Based on	Sideways (2004) Sideways (novel)
Produced by	Chihiro Kameyama Toru Miyazawa
Starring	Fumiyo Kohinata Katsuhisa Namase Kyôka Suzuki Rinko Kikuchi
Cinematography	Gary Waller
Edited by	Jim Munro
Music by	Jake Shimabukuro
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release date	2009-10-31
Running time	123 minutes
Countries	Japan United States
Languages	Japanese English

Saidoweizu (2009) (サイドウェイズ in Kanji, Sideways in English) is a Japanese comedy-drama film that is a remake of the 2004 Oscar-nominated film, Sideways. Like its predecessor, it is primarily set in the Napa Valley wine region.

Plot

Michio Saito is a middle-aged Japanese screenwriter with little success. He is a former foreign student who returns to California to attend the wedding of his best friend, Daisuke Uehara, who has lived in California since college and is now a store manager. Before the wedding, the two men take one last bachelor trip to the Napa Valley wine country, where they meet a woman that Saito once tutored and admired, Mayuko Tanaka, and her friend, Mina Parker. Tanaka and Saito rekindle their acquaintance, and Parker and Uehara become romantically entangled.

Cast

• Fumiyo Kohinata as Michio Saito
• Katsuhisa Namase as Daisuke Uehara
• Kyôka Suzuki as Mayuko Tanaka
• Rinko Kikuchi as Mina Parker

External links

• Official website

• "映画 サイドウェイズ (2009)について 映画データベース". allcinema (in Japanese). 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2020-09-04.

• "サイドウェイズ". 作品情報・映画レビュー -KINENOTE（キネノート） (in Japanese). 2009-10-31. Retrieved 2020-09-04.

• Sideways at IMDb

[[Category:2009 films]] [[Category:20th Century Fox films]] [[Category:American drama films]] [[Category:American road movies]] [[Category:Japanese drama films]] [[Category:Films set in California]] [[Category:CategoryJapanese remakes of American films]]