69 (2004 film)
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| Directed by | Sang-il Lee |
| Written by | Kankuro Kudo |
| Based on | 69 by Ryū Murakami |
| Starring | Satoshi Tsumabuki Masanobu Andō Yuta Kanai Asami Mizukawa |
| Cinematography | Kozo Shibasaki |
| Edited by | Tsuyoshi Imai |
| Music by | Masakazu Sakuma Naoki Tachikawa |
| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $4,551,540[1] |
69 is a 2004 Japanese film adaptation of Ryu Murakami's 1987 novel 69. The film was directed by Lee Sang-il.
In Sasebo (on the Island of Kyushu, Southern Japan), in 1969, inspired by the iconoclastic examples of Dylan, Kerouac, Godard and Che, a band of mildly disaffected teenagers led by the smilingly charismatic Ken decide to shake up "the establishment", i.e., their repressive school and the nearby US military installation. A series of anarchic pranks meets with varying levels of success, until Ken and his friends focus their energies on mounting a multimedia "happening" to combine music, film and theater.
Cast
- Satoshi Tsumabuki as Kensuke "Ken" Yazaki
- Masanobu Andō as Tadashi "Adama" Yamada
- Yuta Kanai as Manabu Iwase
- Asami Mizukawa as Mie Nagayama
- Rina Ohta as Kazuko "Lady Jane" Matsui
- Yoko Mitsuya as Yumi Sato
- Hirofumi Arai as Bancho
- Hideko Hara as Ken's mother
- Ittoku Kishibe as Matsunaga sensei
- Jun Kunimura as Sasaki
- Kyohei Shibata as Ken's father
- Kenny Scott as Military Officer
Awards and nominations
- 47th Blue Ribbon Award
- 29th Hochi Film Award for Best Actor (Satoshi Tsumabaki) (won)[4]
- 19th Takasaki Film Festival: Best Supporting Actor Award (Kyohei Shibata) (won)[5]