A Beautiful Star
| A Beautiful Star | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Daihachi Yoshida |
| Written by |
Daihachi Yoshida Seitarō Kai |
| Based on |
Utsukushii Hoshi by Yukio Mishima |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Takuma Watanabe |
| Distributed by | GAGA |
Release date |
|
Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
A Beautiful Star (美しい星 Utsukushii Hoshi) is an upcoming Japanese science fiction film directed by Daihachi Yoshida and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Yukio Mishima.[1]
Plot
The Osugi family consists of the father Shigeichiro Osugi (Lily Franky), mother Iyoko (Tomoko Nakajima), son Kazuo (Kazuya Kamenashi) and daughter Akiko (Ai Hashimoto). The family believes the father is from Mars, the mother is from Jupiter, the son from Mercury and the daughter from Venus. They are proud that they are aliens, but they keep their true identities a secret. Shigeichiro works as a weather forecaster, Iyoko is absorbed in her weird water business, Kazuo is a freeter and Akiko is a college student with a complex about her beauty.
The family struggle to save mankind from nuclear weapons that can destroy the world.
Cast
- Lily Franky as Jūichirō Ōsugi
- Kazuya Kamenashi as Kazuo Ōsugi
- Ai Hashimoto as Akiko Ōsugi
- Tomoko Nakajima as Iyoko Ōsugi
- Kuranosuke Sasaki as Katsumi Kuroki
- Yūichi Haba
- Yurie Midori
- Junichi Haruta
- Ryuya Wakaba
- Asuka Hinoi
References
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- A Beautiful Star on IMDb