Dog in a Sidecar
Jun 23 2007
•2h 34m
•Drama
The film begins in the present, with its heroine, Kaoru, a grown-up woman working as a real-estate agent, while helping out the folksy proprietor of a neighborhood fishing pond. There she meets a shy girl who needs her help baiting a hook and reminds her of herself in the fourth grade.
Cast
See allYuko Takeuchi
Yoko
Hana Matsumoto
Kaoru Kondo
Arata Furuta
Makoto Kondo
Takeru Taniyama
Toru Kondo
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