Movie
Her Love Boils Bathwater
Overview
After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.
Details
- Release date
- 2016-10-29
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Pipeline, NTT Plala, THE KLOCKWORX, TV Tokyo, Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures, Hikari TV
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Rie Miyazawa as Futaba Kono
- Hana Sugisaki as Azumi Kono
- Joe Odagiri as Kazuhiro Kono
- Tori Matsuzaka as Takumi Mukai
- Aoi Ito as Ayuko Katase
- Yukiko Shinohara as Kimie Sakamaki
- Taro Suruga as Takimoto
- Nanoka Matsubara as Rumi Miyata
- Shuhei Eto
- Kagetora Miura as Mr. Aso
- Sotaro Tanaka
- Lily as Mukoda Miyako
Crew
- Ryota Nakano - Director
- Ryota Nakano - Screenplay
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