Kaza-hana
In Somai’s final film, an alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he’s impulsively made a suicide pact. Though he’s now changed his mind, he agrees to travel with her to Hokkaido, her preferred site for ending it all. An elegiac road movie of restrained emotion.
Genre: Drama
Director: Shinji Sômai
Actors: Akira Emoto, Chōei Takahashi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Kippei Shiina, Kumiko Aso, Kyoko Koizumi, Shingo Tsurumi, Tadanobu Asano, Toshinori Omi, Yoshiko Kayama