Moonlight Mask
2011The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka (comedic story-teller), Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark rakugo, "Sokotsunagaya".
Acted in
Itsuji Itao
as Comic storyteller Morinoga
Tadanobu Asano
as Taro Okamoto
Satomi Ishihara
as Yayoi
Gin Maeda
as Tenraku Morinoga
Rokkaku Seiji
as Kinta Morinoga
Tasuku Emoto
as Shotaro Morinoga
Taro Yabe
Yasuomi Sano
as Oama Morinoga
Shôta Chiyo
as Tenjo Morinoga
Yuichi Kimura
as Platoon leader Hirao
Kanji Tsuda
as Soldier Kumakura
Jun Kunimura
as Owner of show place
Hiroyuki Miyasako
as Bunchou Kagura
Houka Kinoshita
as Utamaro Tsubakiya
Toshie Negishi
as Takako Okamoto
Mitsuru Hirata
as Tatsuzo
Yui Murata