A Quiet Life
Nobel Prize-winning author Kenzaburō Ōe's masterpiece now blossoms with the music of Hikari Ōe.
A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
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Top cast
Hinako Saeki
Ma-chan
Atsuro Watabe
Iiyo
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Father
Mihoko Shibata
Mother
Masayuki Imai
Arai
Tamaki Ogawa
Weather Forecast
Takao Okamura
Danto
Nobuko Miyamoto
Danto's Wife
Yoshiyuki Omori
Oh-chan
Keita Tsukui
Tokie Hidari
Asakura
Tetsu Watanabe
Water Bottle Man
Rie Shibata
Neighbor's Wife
Shinobu Kawamata
Wife
Choei Takahashi
Police Officer
Where to watch
Stream
Criterion ChannelAvailability for US · streaming data provided by JustWatch via TMDB.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 23, 1995
- Runtime
- 2h 1m
- Original language
- JA
- Original title
- 静かな生活
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