Shangri-La (film)
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Directed by | Takashi Miike |
Music by | Kōji Endō |
Cinematography | Hideo Yamamoto |
Edited by | Yasushi Shimamura |
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Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Shangri-La (Kin'yû hametsu Nippon: Tôgenkyô no hito-bito) is a 2002 film directed by Takashi Miike.
Plot
"Shangri-La" follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It's a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
Cast
- Show Aikawa as Village headman
- Shirô Sano as Kuwata
- Yu Tokui as Seisuke Umemoto
- Midoriko Kimura as Fusae
- Kogan Ashiya as Uehara
- Akaji Maro as Ookura Nagashima
- Takashi Ebata as Matsui
- Yojin Hino as Takeda
- Toshiki Ayata as Etô
- Houka Kinoshita as Umekawa
- Shigeru Muroi as Mari
Other credits
- Writing credits:
- Yuuji Aoki - novel Tôgenkyô no hito-bito
- Masakuni Takahashi - screenplay
- Produced by
- Yoichi Arishige - producer
- Kazuhisa Kawaguchi - planner
- Shusaku Matsuoka - producer
- Kazushi Miki - producer
- Tsuneo Ochi - executive producer
- Ken Takeuchi - planner
- Motomu Tomita - producer
- Tsutomu Tsuchikawa - executive producer: Daiei
- Production Design: Akira Ishige
- Production Manager: Katsuhiro Ogawa
- Assistant Director: Bunmei Katô
- Sound Department
- Yoshiya Obara - sound
- Kenji Shibazaki - sound effects
- Lighting technician: Akira Ono