My Way

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.

Cast

Nobuko Otowa

as Mino Kawamura

Taiji Tonoyama

as Yoshizo Kawamura

Rokkō Toura

as Saito

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

as Kobayakawa's father

Rie Yokoyama

as Sakiko

Miki Kojika

as Yoshiko Kawamura

Eiji Okada

as Lawyer

Fumio Watanabe

as Lawyer

Akira Yamanouchi

as Umina

Masami Horiuchi

as Lawyer

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