Movie: Laundry
Romaji:
Japanese: ランドリー
Director: Junichi Mori
Writer: Junichi Mori
Producer: Chikahiro Ando, Toru Horibe, Keiichiro Moriya
Cinematographer Kozo Shibasaki
Release Date: March 9, 2002
Runtime: 126 min.
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
Twenty-year-old Teru works for his grandmother at her coin laundry. In reality, all he does is watch to see that no creep steals any women's underwear. Teru had an accident when he was small which impaired his intellectual ability to the point that he can no longer distinguish between his fantasies and the real world. One day a strikingly beautiful woman named Mizue walks in and leaves one of her dresses behind in the machine, a dress still stained with blood from her failed suicide attempt. Teru decides to find Mizue in order to return the dress, after having tried desperately to render it clean. Teru locates Mizue and brings her back to the city. Soon thereafter Teru's grandmother dies, and her creditors repossess the home in which Teru and Mizue are living. The young couple turn to Sally for help. Sally is a caring man who trains pigeons for a living. When Sally decides to hit the road, he leaves everything he owns to Teru and Mizue. They start a new life. Teru proposes to Mizue, but she refuses him. The more she is assured of Teru's pure heart, the more she feels she doesn't deserve it. Full of inner turmoil, Mizue begins shoplifting...
Cast
Yosuke Kubozuka - Teru
Koyuki - Mizue
Takashi Naito - Sally
Kenichirô Tanabe - Miyashita
Katsumi Muramatsu - Old man with a cane
Kazue Tsunogae - Old lady photographer
Hana Kino - Kinuyo Okazaki
Risa Nishimura - Shiori Okazaki
Yuko Fukui