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A Beautiful Star
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Wikipedia article
is a Japanese science fiction film directed by Daihachi Yoshida and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Yukio Mishima.
Plot
The Osugi family consists of the father Jichir Osugi (Lily Franky), mother Iyoko (Tomoko Nakajima), son Kazuo (Kazuya Kamenashi) and daughter Akiko (Ai Hashimoto). Over the course of the film, the father comes to believe that he is from Mars, the son that he is from Mercury and the daughter from Venus. Jichir works as a weather forecaster, Iyoko joins a pyramid scheme selling water, Kazuo is a bike messenger and Akiko is a college student with a complex about her beauty.
The family struggle, often in conflict, to address the threat of global warming.
Cast
* Lily Franky as Jichir sugi
* Kazuya Kamenashi as Kazuo sugi
* Ai Hashimoto as Akiko sugi
* Tomoko Nakajima as Iyoko sugi
* Kuranosuke Sasaki as Katsumi Kuroki
* Yichi Haba
* Yurie Midori
* Junichi Haruta
* Ryuya Wakaba
* Asuka Hinoi
Awards
References
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