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Toad's Oil

Original title
Gama no Abura (Toad's Oil)
Year
Running time
133 min.
Country
Japan Japan
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Genre
Drama | Family Relationships
Synopsis
The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), teenage son Tetsuya (Eita) - who dreams of becoming an astronaut. The family is also joined by Saburo Akiba (Junichi Sawayashiki), a good-natured teen recently released from a juvenile corrections facility. Then one day Tetsuya falls into a coma from a car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son Tokuya ...
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User history
Toad's Oil
2009
Kôji Yakusho
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