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Shangri-La (2002)
Directed by Takashi Miike
Comedy, Drama · 1h 44m
Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
Cast
Show Aikawa
Shiro Sano
Yuu Tokui
Midoriko Kimura
Akaji Maro
Takashi Ebata
Yojin Hino
Toshiki Ayata
Shigeru Muroi
Crew
- Director
- Takashi Miike
- Screenplay
- Masakuni Takahashi
- Novel
- Yûji Aoki
- Director of Photography
- Hideo Yamamoto
- Original Music Composer
- Koji Endo
- Editor
- Yasushi Shimamura
- Producer
- Yoichi Arishige, Motomu Tomita, Shusaku Matsuoka, Kazushi Miki
Details
- Original title
- 金融破滅ニッポン 桃源郷の人々
- Release date
- 2002-08-03
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Daiei TV-Film, Video Planning, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation