Toad's Oil

June. 06,2009      
Rating:
6.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The Yazawa family consists of the father Takuro (Koji Yakusho) - who is always busy day trading, charming wife Erumi (Satomi Kobayashi), and 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...

Koji Yakusho as  Takuro Yazawa
Eita Nagayama as  Tetsuya Yazawa
Satomi Kobayashi as  Terumi Yazawa
Fumi Nikaido as  Hikari
Kaoru Yachigusa as  Hikari's grandmother

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