Directed by:
Tetsuya NakashimaScreenplay:
Tetsuya NakashimaComposer:
Gabriele RobertoCast:
Miki Nakatani, 伊勢谷友介, Anna Tsuchiya, YosiYosi Arakawa, Noriko Eguchi, Sora Aoi, Eita Nagayama, Asuka Kurosawa, Akira Emoto, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kō Shibasaki (more)Plots(1)
When a bored college student learns that a long lost aunt has been found dead in a park, he begins piecing together her life to see if it had any value. What he finds is a revelation. Talented film director, Tetsuya Nakashima ("Kamikaze Girls" 04), wield a host of cinematic tools to make "Memories of MATSUKO" a memorably entertaining and emotionally powerful "fairytale tragedy," weaving together realistic human drama with offbeat comedy and spectacular (Bob Fosse-like) production numbers to tell the heartbreaking story of Matsuko Kawajiri, a starry-eyed woman who spends her entire life serching for a worthy "prince" capable of returning her limitless love. Versatile actress, Miki Nakatani, renders a virtuosic performance in the lead role of Matsuko. (Third Window Films)
(more)Cast
Miki Nakatani
Japan
Best movies:
Flavor of Happiness (2008)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003)
伊勢谷友介
Japan
Best movies:
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Anna Tsuchiya
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Kamikaze Girls (2004)
The Taste of Tea (2004)
YosiYosi Arakawa
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2003)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Noriko Eguchi
Japan
Best movies:
Swing Girls (2004)
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2003)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Sora Aoi
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Hormones (2008)
Revenge: A Love Story (2010)
Eita Nagayama
Japan
Best movies:
The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker (2007)
Hanging Garden (2005)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Asuka Kurosawa
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Cold Fish (2010)
Himizu (2011)
Akira Emoto
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (2003)
Lakeside Murder Case (2004)
Teruyuki Kagawa
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Tomorrow (2006)
Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
One Piece Film: Z (2012)
Kō Shibasaki
Japan
Best movies:
Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World (2004)
Go (2001)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Houka Kinoshita
Japan
Best movies:
Flavor of Happiness (2008)
Sonatine (1993)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Hideo Sakaki
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Azumi (2003)
Girl's Blood (2014)
Kyūsaku Shimada
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
One Million Yen Girl (2008)
Sad Vacation (2007)
Shōsuke Tanihara
Japan
Best movies:
1,778 Stories of Me and My Wife (2011)
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
Mikako Ichikawa
Japan
Best movies:
Be with You (2004)
Romantic Prelude (2009)
Glasses (2007)
Makoto Togashi
Japan
Best movies:
Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Cure (1997)
Guilty of Romance (2011)
Tetsu Watanabe
Japan
Best movies:
Princess Mononoke (1997)
Fireworks (1997)
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Kankurô Kudô
Japan
Best movies:
Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World (2004)
Tekkonkinkreet (2006)
A Heartful of Love (2005)
Yôji Tanaka
Japan
Best movies:
One Piece! (1999)
Kikujiro (1999)
By Player (2000)