Faraway Sunset (1992)
遠き落日
Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent that cause syphilis, and for his relentless search for a cure to yellow fever. As a toddler, his mother's neglect had caused an accident to his left hand, fusing together all the fingers in a bizarre twist of fate. Naturally extremely remorseful for being the cause of her son's handicap, she does everything she could to ensure that he gets to lead a normal life, despite having to fend off bullies and unfair prejudices.
- Date of release
- 1992-07-04
- TMDB
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Seijiro Koyama
Casting
- Yoshiko Mita — Shika Noguchi
- Hiroshi Mikami — Hideyo Noguchi
- Tatsuya Nakadai — Kobayashi
- Riho Makise — Yoneko Yamauchi
- Takahiro Tamura — Ryutaro
- Shingo Yamashiro — Dr. Watanabe
- Hiroyuki Nagato — Dr. Kitasato
- Julie Dreyfus — Mary
- Toshinori Omi
- Chisako Hara
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Interesting facts
Tōki Rakujitsu is a 1992 Japanese film directed by Seijirō Kōyama. It is about the Japanese scientist Hideyo Noguchi. It is based on two biographical novels: Tōki Rakujitsu written by Junichi Watanabe and Noguchi no haha: Noguchi Hideo Monogatari written by Kaneto Shindō. The screenplay was written by Kaneto Shindō. It stars Hiroshi Mikami.
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