69 (film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Sang-il Lee |
Written by | Kankuro Kudo |
Starring | Satoshi Tsumabuki Masanobu Ando Yuta Kanai Asami Mizukawa |
Cinematography | Kozo Shibasaki |
Edited by | Tsuyoshi Imai |
Music by | Masakazu Sakuma Naoki Tachikawa |
Distributed by | Toei Company |
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Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | $4,551,540[1] |
69 is a 2004 film adaptation of Ryu Murakami's novel 69.
Plot
Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, 1969: Inspired by the iconoclastic examples of Dylan, Kerouac, Godard and Che, a band of mildly disaffected teenagers led by the smilingly charismatic Ken (Tsumabuki Satoshi) decide to shake up "the establishment," i.e., their repressive school and the nearby US military installation. A series of anarchic pranks meets with varying levels of success, until Ken and company focus their energies on mounting a multimedia "happening" to combine music, film and theater. Complications ensue.
Cast
- Satoshi Tsumabuki as Kensuke "Ken" Yazaki
- Masanobu Ando as Tadashi "Adama" Yamada
- Yuta Kanai as Manabu Iwase
- Asami Mizukawa as Mie Nagayama
- Rina Ohta as Kazuko "Lady Jane" Matsui
- Yoko Mitsuya as Yumi Sato
- Hirofumi Arai as Bancho
- Hideko Hara as Kenichi's mother
- Ittoku Kishibe as Matsunaga sensei
- Jun Kunimura as Sasaki
- Kyohei Shibata as Ken's father
- Kenny Scott as Military Officer
References
- ^ "69". Boxofficemojo. Retrieved March 4, 2012.