Moonlight Mask (2011)
The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka (comedic story-teller), Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark rakugo, "Sokotsunagaya".
- Released
- 2011-03-26
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Itsuji Itao
Cast
- Itsuji Itao as Comic Storyteller Morinoga
- Tadanobu Asano as Taro Okamoto
- Satomi Ishihara as Yayoi
- Gin Maeda as Tenraku Morinoga
- Rokkaku Seiji as Kinta Morinoga
- Tasuku Emoto as Shotaro Morinoga
- Taro Yabe
- Yasuomi Sano as Oama Morinoga
- Shota Chiyo as Tenjo Morinoga
- Yuichi Kimura as Platoon Leader Hirao
- Kanji Tsuda as Soldier Kumakura
- Jun Kunimura as Owner of Show Place