Movie: 69
Romaji: 69 sixty nine
Japanese: 69 sixty nine
Director: Sang-il Lee
Assistant Director: Masaharu Take
Writer: Ryu Murakami, Kankuro Kudo
Producer: Shigeo Yokomizo, Mitsuru Kurosawa, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Hiroshi Date, Kei Ijichi, Masatake Kondo, Yuji Saito
Cinematographer Kouzou Shibazaki
Release Date: July 10, 2004
Runtime: 114 min.
Genre: Award Winning / Award Winning-Drama / Award Winning-Teen / Award Winning-Comedy / Award Winning-Period-1960
Distributor: Toei
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot
Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, 1969: inspired by the iconoclastic example of Dylan, Kerouac, Godard and Che, a band of mildly disaffected teenagers led by the smilingly charismatic Ken (Satoshi Tsumabuki) decide to shake up "the establishment" - i.e. their repressive school and the nearby US military installation. A series of anarchic pranks meets with varying levels of success, until Ken and company focus their energies on mounting a multimedia ‘happening' to combine music, film and theatre. Complications ensue.
Cast
Satoshi Tsumabuki - Kenichi Yazaki
Masanobu Ando - Tadashi "Adama" Yamada
Yuta Kanai - Manabu Iwase
Asami Mizukawa - Mie Nagayama
Rina Ohta - Kazuko "Lady Jane" Matsui
Yoko Mitsuya - Yumi Sato
Hirofumi Arai - Bancho
Hideko Hara - Kenichi's mother
Ittoku Kishibe - Matsunaga sensei
Jun Kunimura - Sasaki
Kyohei Shibata - Kenichi's father
Noriko Eguchi
Tasuku Emoto - Tatsuo Masugaki
Gen Hoshino - Yuzuru Nakamura
Haruka Igawa - Alpharomeo girl
Ryo Kase - Ryo Otaki
Rinko Kikuchi
Kenta Kiritani - Yuji Shirogushi
Fumiyo Kohinata - Yoshioka sensei
Hidekazu Mashima
Rie Minemura - Fumiko sensei
Yoko Mitsuya
Akifumi Miura - Goro Narushima
Yosuke Miyauchi - Shirai
Yoshiyuki Morishita - Adachi
Jun Murakami - Yakuza
Shunsuke Sawada - Ezaki
Toshiyuki Seyama - Scribe
Kyusaku Shimada - Aihara sensei
Suzunosuke
Kosuke Toyohara - Kawasaki sensei
Yoshiyaki Yoza - Kiyoshi Fukushima
Sosuke Nishiyama
Erika Asakura
Awards
2004 (29th) Hochi Film Awards - December, 2004
"Best Actor" (Satoshi Tsumabuki)