Karakara (2012)
Pierre, a retired professor in his early sixties ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (she?) may take him.
- Date of release
- 2012-08-31
- TMDB
- 3.0 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Claude Gagnon
Casting
- Gabriel Arcand — Pierre
- Youki Kudoh — Junko
- Atta Yuichi — Kenichi
- John Potter — Brian
- Toshi Moromi — Grandma Megaru
- Tenyu Okuda — Qi Gong Master
- Megumi Tomita — Akemi
- Takayuki Ichise — Policeman
- Mieko Taira — Self
- Toshiko Taira — Self
Interesting facts
Karakara is a Canadian drama film, directed by Claude Gagnon and released in 2012. The film stars Gabriel Arcand as Pierre, a professor from Quebec who is on sabbatical in Okinawa to reevaluate his life after the death of his friend, and is drawn into a love affair with Junko, a local woman fleeing an abusive husband who offers to be his tour guide.
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