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Tokyo Family
Why this pick
Yamada brings the same affectionate, lightly comic attention to everyday family frictions, balancing generational misunderstandings with warmth and unforced emotion.
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MOVIE2016 1h 48m JPN
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tomoko Nakajima
Shigeko Kanai
Yu Aoi
Noriko Mamiya
Nenji Kobayashi
Numata
Yui Natsukawa
Fumie Hirata
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Shota Hirata
Takashi Sasano
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