Movie: Toad's Oil
Romaji: Gama no Abura
Japanese: ガマの油
Director: Koji Yakusho
Writer: Urara
Producer: Keisuke Konishi, Masuo Takahashi, Soichiro Hashi, Yoshinori Kumazawa, Takero Hisamatsu, Masahiro Harada
Cinematography: Toyomichi Kurita
Release Date: June 6, 2009
Runtime: 131 Min
Studio: Pyramid Film
Distributor: Phantom Film
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), teenage son Tetsuya (Eita) - who dreams of becoming an astronaut. The family is also joined by Saburo Akiba (Junichi Sawayashiki), a good-natured teen recently released from a juvenile corrections facility. Then one day Tetsuya falls into a coma from a car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son Tokuya ...
Cast
Koji Yakusho as Takuro Yazawa
Eita as Tetsuya
Satomi Kobayashi as Terumi
Junichi Sawayashiki as Saburo Akiba
Fumi Nikaido as Hikari
Kaoru Yachigusa as Hikari's grandmother
Additonal Cast Members:
Toru Masuoka
Hajime Inoue
Yuya Takagawa
Kenji Kawahara