Beijing Watermelon (1989)
北京的西瓜
Which do you prefer, the watermelon from Beijing or the watermelon from Chiba?
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.
- Date of release
- 1989-11-18
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 2h 15m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
Casting
- Bengal — Shunzo Horikoshi
- Masako Motai — Michi Horikoshi
- Yasufumi Hayashi — Toru Horikoshi
- Haruhiko Saito — Mr. Ioka
- Takashi Sasano — Mr. Yamada
- Hana Kino — Matsue Otobuji
- Akira Emoto — Mr. Teramoto
- Yugi Ogata — Bank Clerk
- Chiyodayu Okubo — Mr. Aotani
- Ryo Iwamatsu — Policeman
- Kazunori Hagiwara — Yasuo Hirai
- Hiromi Oshima — Yumi Horikoshi
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