Sad Vacation (2007)
サッド ヴァケイション
Abandoned by his mother, Kenji scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs, including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this, he cares for the sister of an incarcerated friend and a young illegal immigrant. Eventually, his life reaches a turning point.
- Date of release
- 2007-09-08
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Shinji Aoyama
- Collection
- Kitakyushu Saga
Casting
- Tadanobu Asano — Kenji Shiraishi
- Eri Ishida — Chiyoko Mamiya
- Aoi Miyazaki — Kozue Tamura
- Yuka Itaya — Saeko Shiina
- Katsuo Nakamura — Shigeki Mamiya
- Kengo Kora — Yusuke Mamiya
- Joe Odagiri — Goto
- Kosuke Toyohara — Kawashima
- Yoichiro Saito — Akihiko
- Kyusaku Shimada — Sone
- Yūsuke Kawazu — Kijima
- Maho Toyota — Makimura
Interesting facts
Sad Vacation is a 2007 Japanese drama film written and directed by Shinji Aoyama, adapted from his novel. Being third and last of Aoyama's "Kitakyushu Saga", Sad Vacation brings together several characters from his previous films Helpless and Eureka and continues to explore their lives, all the while being a separate story that doesn't require watching previous films. It was named after the Johnny Thunders song.
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