Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Direction
Kurosawa's static dread becomes gentle observation.
Acting
Nishijima's physicality: a man out of time in his own body.
Writing
The pony farm as absurd healing metaphor—ridiculous, perfect.
Director
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Hidetoshi Nishijima
Yutaka Yoshii
Koji Yakusho
Fujimori
Shun Sugata
Shinichiro Yoshii
Lily
Sachiko Iwatani
Kumiko Aso
Chizuru Yoshii
Show Aikawa
Kasaki
Yoriko Doguchi
Miki
Ren Osugi
Murota
Hiromitsu Suzuki
Kurume
Kosuke Toyohara
Doctor
Masahiro Toda
Akira Ueda
Michi Yamamura
Ueda's Mother
Tarō Suwa
Old Man
Akira Otaka
Garbage Man
Hajime Inoue
Officer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Heisei-era Japan's economic stagnation haunts every frame; the broken family mirrors national anxiety about irreversible change.
Kurosawa called this his 'most personal film'—the horror master's tender letter to his own complicated family relationships.
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