Moonlight Mask
月光ノ仮面
Release: 2011-03-26
·Runtime: 102m
The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka (comedic story-teller), Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark rakugo, "Sokotsunagaya".
Production Countries
Japan
Cast
Itsuji Itao
as Comic Storyteller Morinoga
Tadanobu Asano
as Taro Okamoto
Toshie Negishi
as Takako Okamoto
Satomi Ishihara
as Yayoi
Tasuku Emoto
as Shotaro Morinoga
Yuichi Kimura
as Platoon Leader Hirao
Houka Kinoshita
as Utamaro Tsubakiya
Yui Murata
Taro Yabe
Shota Chiyo
as Tenjo Morinoga
Kanji Tsuda
as Soldier Kumakura
Mitsuru Hirata
as Tatsuzo
Gin Maeda
as Tenraku Morinoga
Rokkaku Seiji
as Kinta Morinoga
Yasuomi Sano
as Oama Morinoga
Jun Kunimura
as Owner of Show Place
Hiroyuki Miyasako
as Bunchou Kagura