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Can’t Believe A Japanese Film Would Be One Of My Favorite Movies
Just finished watching “The Milkwoman” in Cinema 4 at the Ayala Center Cebu with Aime and April. It is one of the entry in a Japanese Film Festival and is shown here in Cebu for free from yesterday to Sunday this week as part of the Eiga Sai 2009 (just Google the meaning) in celebration of the Philippines-Japan Friendship Month.
I can’t believe I liked the film. No. Really. Like is an understatement. I LOVE the film. I can totally relate from it. It is now part of my favorite-films-that-I’ve-watched-and-did-not-vomit-afterwards list. It’s funny and yet deep. It’s touching and never boring. Maybe people may not like the ending but I think it was perfect. Because it was what the milkwoman asked in her letter to the radio station, to have a whole day with the person she loves and so she had a whole day of love. And I can’t forget the scenes about the milkwoman’s senile uncle running around with a spoon looking for curry. Really funny!!!
A surprisingly fabulous film! Gotta download this!!!
Here’s the entry about the movie from the brochure given at the cinema:
The Milkwoman
(Itsuka dokusho suri hi)
Color/Vista/2005/127 min/Paradise Cafe, Pugpoint Japan
Director: Ogata Akira
Script: Aoki Kenji
Based on the story by: Aoki Kenji, Ogata Akira
Cinematography: Kasamatsu Norimichi
Art Direction: Hanaya Hidefumi
Music: Ikebe Shinichiro
Producers: Oiwake Shiro, Hatanaka Motohiro
Cast:
Oba Minako: Tanaka Yuko
Takanashi Kaita: Kishibe Ittoku
Takanashi Yoko, his wife: Nishina Akiko
Minagawa Toshiko: Watanabe Misako
Minagawa Masao, her husband: Ueda Koichi
Takanashi Yogi: Kaita’s father
Oba Chiyo, Minako’s mother
Nurse Watanabe: Kozu Hazuki
Chief of a supermarket: Kagawa Teruyuki
Setting: Present-day Nagasaki
Synopsis:
In a hilly town of Nagasaki, Oba Minako, a 50-ish single woman leads a quiet life, working at a supermarket and delivering milk locally. She grew up in Nagasaki and decided as a young girl that she would never leave. Her father died when she was a young girl. Her mother raised her till Minako was in high school. While in high school, Minako and a boy named Takanashi Kaita dated. Minako’s mother had a boyfriend, who happened to be Kaita’s father. One day, Minako’s mother and Kaita’s father were killed in a traffic accident while bicycling toward a secluded mountain area near the village. Kaita’s mother was devastated. The death of their parents drove a wedge between Minako and Kaita.
Kaita works for the local government and nurses his wife, Yoko, who is dying of cancer. One day Minako delivers milk to Kaita’s house and recognizes him as her first love from high school and their lives take an unexpected turn.
The Milkwoman won the Special Grand Jury prize at the Montreal film festival in 2005. It was also nominated for seven other awards. Tanaka Yuko, who played the role of Minako, also played the voice of Lady Eboshi in Princess Mononoke (“Mononoke hime”, 1997).
