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MEMORIES OF MATSUKO

By Tetsuya NAKASHIMA

Drama - Completed 2006

- Year of production
- 2006
- Genres
- Drama, Musical
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 129 mn
- Director(s)
- Tetsuya NAKASHIMA
- Synopsis
- When a bored college student learns that a long lost aunt has been found dead in a park, he begins piecing together her life to see if it held any value. What he finds is a revelation.
  Talented film director, Tetsuya Nakashima (“Kamikaze Girls”), wields a host of cinematic tools to make Memories of Matsuko a memorably entertaining and emotionally powerful “fairytale tragedy,” weaving together realistic human drama with offbeat comedy and spectacular (Bob Fosse-like) production numbers to tell the heartbreaking story of Matsuko Kawajiri, a starry-eyed woman who spends her entire life searching for a worthy “prince” capable of returning her limitless love. Versatile actress, Miki Nakatani, renders a virtuosic performance in the lead role of Matsuko.