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Harada Tomoyo (Actor)
| Takenaka Naoto (Director, Actor)
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Popular and prolific character actor Takenaka Naoto from Ping Pong and Nodame Cantabile returns to the director's chair for Sayonara Color. Both starring and directing, Takenaka Naoto gives a characteristically eccentric performance as a quirky doctor in love with his patient in this moving drama that affects with both offbeat humor and terminal disease pathos. Appropriately enough, 80s idol Harada Tomoyo (The Youth of Kamiya Etsuko) co-stars as the woman who beguiles him in both past and present.
High school crushes can last a lifetime, as amorous doctor Sasaki Shohei (Takenaka Naoto) realizes when Michiko (Harada Tomoyo) checks into his hospital. The girl of his dreams during Sasaki's high school days, Michiko is now gravely ill, and experiencing great setbacks in both life and love. Brought together by chance, Michiko and Sasaki strike new sparks of passion, even as the light slowly goes out on their lives. But who's saving who in this twilight romance?
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| Product Title: | Sayonara Color (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version) 患上不治之愛 (DVD) (香港版) 患上不治之爱 (DVD) (香港版) Sayonara Color (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version) Sayonara Color (DVD) (English Subtitled) (Hong Kong Version) |
| Also known as: | 患上不治的愛 患上不治的爱 |
| Artist Name(s): | Harada Tomoyo (Actor) | Takenaka Naoto (Actor) 原田知世 (Actor) | 竹中直人 (Actor) 原田知世 (Actor) | 竹中直人 (Actor) 原田知世 (Actor) | 竹中直人 (Actor) Harada Tomoyo (Actor) | Takenaka Naoto (Actor) |
| Director: | Takenaka Naoto 竹中直人 竹中直人 竹中直人 Takenaka Naoto |
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| Release Date: | 2008-07-16 |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Japan |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.78 : 1 |
| Sound Information: | Dolby Digital |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD |
| Region Code: | All Region What is it? |
| Duration: | 119 (mins) |
| Publisher: | Kam & Ronson Enterprises Co Ltd |
| Package Weight: | 120 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1011227335 |
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* Screen Format: 16:9 LB
* Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Director: Takenaka Naoto
Sayonara Color is the fifth film by Takenaka Naoto, one of Japan's most respected character actors and the director of Muno no Hito - Nowhere Man and Tokyo Biyori. Shohei (TAKENAKA Naoto) works as a doctor in a sea-side hospital. One day a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to recognize Michiko (HARADA Tomoyo), his first love from high school. Shohei has been leading a dissolute bachelor life, paying for the company of high school girls and dating an older woman who works in a local bar, but in reality for the last twenty years he has not forgotten Michiko. Unfortunately, though Michiko doesn't remember him at all.
Shohei becomes more and more and more persistent in his attempts to get her to recall their past. At first she is annoyed by his overtures, but gradually warms to the doctor. Under Shohei's kind and patient care Michiko's condition improves and her cancer becomes operable. The operation is a success, but now Shohei himself learns that he has terminal cancer.
* Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Director: Takenaka Naoto
Sayonara Color is the fifth film by Takenaka Naoto, one of Japan's most respected character actors and the director of Muno no Hito - Nowhere Man and Tokyo Biyori. Shohei (TAKENAKA Naoto) works as a doctor in a sea-side hospital. One day a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to recognize Michiko (HARADA Tomoyo), his first love from high school. Shohei has been leading a dissolute bachelor life, paying for the company of high school girls and dating an older woman who works in a local bar, but in reality for the last twenty years he has not forgotten Michiko. Unfortunately, though Michiko doesn't remember him at all.
Shohei becomes more and more and more persistent in his attempts to get her to recall their past. At first she is annoyed by his overtures, but gradually warms to the doctor. Under Shohei's kind and patient care Michiko's condition improves and her cancer becomes operable. The operation is a success, but now Shohei himself learns that he has terminal cancer.
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The Germ in love
| In "Sayonara Color", Takenaka Naoto plays Sasaki, an emotionally repressed medical doctor. Michiko (Harada Tomoyo), one of his patients, is suffering from terminal uterine cancer. We learn that, in their high school days, Sasaki, the class nerd known to his schoolmates as "The Germ", had an unspoken crush on Michiko, but Michiko barely seems to recognize him. Sasaki, on the other hand, has never lost his devotion to and love for Michiko. Both Takenaka and Harada deliver affecting performances and the movie serves up some powerfully moving scenes of love and yearning. Unfortunately, the viewer is constantly distracted by the quirkiness of Takenaka's directorial style and of many of the film's minor characters, sabotaging the film's emotional power. Fans of art house films will enjoy "Sayonara Color", but for a general audience I much more highly recommend one of Takenaka's earlier films, the superb "Quiet Days of Firemen". |
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