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SLAPSTICK BROTHERS

MANZAI GANG

By Hiroshi SHINAGAWA

KADOKAWA CORPORATION - as DISTR

Comedy - Completed 2011

A comedic team forged in jail?
Following up on his smash hit, Drop, Hiroshi Shinagawa delivers his much anticipated second directorial work, Slapstick Brothers, a gut-busting, rib-bruising, youth film about the dreams and frustrations of rising standup comics, overflowing with exhilaration.

- Year of production
- 2011
- Genres
- Comedy
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 137 mn
- Director(s)
- Hiroshi SHINAGAWA
- Writer(s)
- Hiroshi SHINAGAWA
- Cast
- Daisuke MIYAGAWA, Hirofumi ARAI, Ryuta SATO, Satomi ISHIHARA, Seiki NAGAHARA, Takashi SASANO, Yuji AYABE, Yusuke KAMIJI
- Producer(s)
- Ryohei NAKA, Shigeo MINAKAMI
- Synopsis
- Two people of diametrically opposed personalities and situations have a fateful encounter… in jail! When a struggling standup comic, Tobio, (Ryuta Sato, fresh off his memorable performance in ROOKIES: Graduation) meets a lone wolf street thug, Ryuhei (Yusuke Kamiji) in jail, he senses a life-changing moment. Tobio realizes Ryuhei possesses a brilliant comedic timing and asks him to team up with him as his standup partner. A quirky but nevertheless solid new friendship develops that ignites newfound zeal in both lives. Tobio falls back in love with his ex-girlfriend, Yumiko (Satomi Ishihara). And Ryuhei swears off his rough-and-tumble ways. But first the two will have to get past a pesky, loud-mouthed loanshark (Daisuke Miyagawa) and a tenacious street gang. Can these two break free from a life of hard knocks and hear the laughter?