Hanging Garden
Japanese Title:Kuchu Teien
Release Year in Japan: 2005
Release Year in the U.S.: n/a
Director: Toshiaki Toyoda
Cast: Kyoko Koizumi (Eriko), Michiyo Okusu (her mother Satoko), Itsuji Itao (her husband Takashi)
This family live in an old-fashioned high-rise apartment and the housewife
Eriko keeps a small garden in their balcony. They are supposed to have
no secrets among them, and Eriko is obsessed to keep that rule. But one
day, their secrets start to reveal.
Fans praise the battle between the wife and mother, played by Kyoko Koizumi
and Michiyo Okusu. The story reveals the emptiness of the modern family
and the struggle to revive it. The film also got a press attention by Director
Toshiaki Toyoda's drug-related arrest in August 2005.
(February, 2006)
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<Region 2>
Japanese
English subtitles available
Release schedule 5/26/2006
