Paco and the Magical Book
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| Japanese | パコと魔法の絵本 復活の |
| Hepburn | Pako to Mahō no Ehon |
| Directed by | Tetsuya Nakashima |
| Produced by | Yutaka Suzuki |
| Written by | Hirohito Goto original play, Nobuhiro Monma, Tetsuya Nakashima screenplay |
| Starring | Koji Yakusho, Ayaka Wilson, Satoshi Tsumabuki |
| Music by | Gabriele Roberto |
| Cinematography | Shoichi Ato, Atsushi Ozawa |
| Edited by | Yoshiyuki Koike |
| Distributed by | Toho |
Release dates |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $22,679,633[1] |
Paco and the Magical (Picture) Book (パコと魔法の絵本 Pako to Mahō no Ehon) is a 2008 Japanese film written and directed by Tetsuya Nakashima, based on a play by Hirohito Goto.
It was shown at the Munich Asian Filmfest in 2008[2] and has been nominated for three awards for the 2009 Asian Film Awards.[3] Actors Koji Yakusho and Ayaka Wilson and director Tetsuya Nakashima have been nominated for the 2008 Japanese Academy Award.[4]
Synopsis
The movie is set in a hospital where "strange" people are sent.
One of the older, gruffer patients, is Onuki, a business owner who is sent to the hospital after a heart attack, thinks little of the other hospital patients, and hopes to die without being remembered by such "worthless" people. Another patient, a young girl named Paco, is in the hospital due to a memory disorder- she can only remember the events of one day at a time. Each day she reads a pop-up children's book, and often asks Onuki to read to her. Each day it is a new story for her.
Eventually, the two of them develop a friendship, and Onuki decides to enlist the help of the other people in the hospital to perform a play of the book, hoping it will help Paco.
Cast
- Ōnuki (Prince Gama): Koji Yakusho
- Paco: Ayaka Wilson
- Muromachi (the demon crawfish): Satoshi Tsumabuki
- Tamako (the ricefish): Anna Tsuchiya
- Horigome (the dragonfly larva): Sadao Abe
- Kōichi (the water strider): Ryō Kase
- Masami (the swamp shrimp witch): Eiko Koike
- Ryūmonji (the whirligig beetle): Takaya Yamauchi
- Kinomoto (Queen Gama): Jun Kunimura
- Takita (the fish): Gekidan Hitori
- Asano (the pond snail): Takaya Kamikawa
References
External links
- Official Site (Japanese)
- Paco and the Magical (Picture) Book at the Internet Movie Database