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Billiken (1996)
Directed by Junji Sakamoto
Fantasy, Drama · 1h 40m
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.
Cast
Tetta Sugimoto
Tomoko Yamaguchi
Ittoku Kishibe
Shigeru Izumiya
Eiji Minakata
Jun Kunimura
Yoshio Harada
Crew
- Director
- Junji Sakamoto
- Writer
- Junji Sakamoto, Toshiaki Toyoda
Details
- Original title
- ビリケン
- Release date
- 1996-08-03
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan