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Anticipation

8.220191h 19mMovieDrama

Todo, an old wealthy man, is fascinated by the appearance of Sayumi walking in the graveyard in midsummer, holding the urn of his late mother. Sayumi, who doesn't know her father, longs for Todo like her father and begins to love him as a…

DirectorHidekazu Takahara
WritersHidekazu Takahara·Hideki Shishido

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Cast · Directed by Hidekazu Takahara

DRDaisuke Ryū
Daisuke Ryū
TNTakashi Naha
Takashi Naha
AHAkio Hirose
Akio Hirose
TSTakashi Shigematsu
Takashi Shigematsu
RM
Rinko Morikawa

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