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Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms).
Good for
- Date night
- Friends night
- Teens
Where to watch
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 58GoodWatch 64
IMDb5.8
Running time
2 h 13 min
A typical length for history movies, +11 min on the typical 122
typical 122133Half of all history movies run 108–138 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
2010
October 22, 2010
16 years ago
Genres
HistoryDramaRomanceLanguage
Japanese
Original language
Made in
- Japan
18 of 18
Yu AoiRai / Yu
Masaki OkadaNarimichi
Keisuke KoideSukejiro Seta
Akira EmotoKakunoshi Enokido
Saburo TokitoRiemon
Yoshiko MiyazakiTae
Soko WadaSuketarou Seta
Kengo KoraTomozou
Jun MurakamiRokurouhutoshi Ikanai
Shugo OshinariTetsunosuke Imaizumi
Ryuya WakabaHideosuke Sakakibara
Tasuku EmotoShigezi
Ren OsugiSennokai Takayama
Bandō Mitsugorō XIenari Tokugaa
BengalMonnosuke Hayasaka
Shinnosuke IkehataBunnosusumu Tadokoro
Risa SudouOhatsu
Takumi BandoSaburota
Directing · 1
- Ryuichi Hiroki Director
Writing · 3
- Masato Katō Screenplay
- Sachiko Tanaka Screenplay
- Mari Ueza Novel
Production · 7
- Takashi Hirano Producer
- Satoshi Fukushima Co-Producer
- Osamu Kubota Supervising Producer
- Kasumi Yao Associate Producer
- Arimasa Okada Co-Producer
- Akiko Ikuno Associate Producer
Camera · 1
- Atsuhiro Nabeshima Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Hani Mituhashi Editor
Sound · 3
- Ohashi Trio Original Music Composer
- Akira Fukada Sound, Sound Recordist
- Kagenobu Kuwahata Music Producer
Art · 1
- Kyōko Heya Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 1
- Kazuko Kurosawa Costume Design
Visual Effects · 1
- Hashimoto Mitsuaki Visual Effects
Lighting · 1
- Meichô Tomiyama Gaffer
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