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After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.

Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to manufacture counterfeit money. She initially refuses, but eventually decides to join the project for the sake of the poor children in the village and her own mentally handicapped child.

Mitsuko Baisho
Kageko Sada

Munetaka Aoki
Tetsuya Nakagawa

Yuichi Kimura
Noridonbe Hanamura

Toshiyuki Itakura
Shingo Ohtsu
Ryo Nishikata
Misako Shimamoto

Masaki Miura
Kenjo Ogasawara

Takashi Ukaji
Masazane Kurata

Jun Murakami
Kiyota Hashimoto

Yasunori Danta
Fumio Toura (as Yasunori Danda)

Shigeru Izumiya
Toyoji Ikemoto
Counterfeit is a drama, comedy, crime film released in 2009. Directed by Yuichi Kimura, it stars Mitsuko Baisho, Munetaka Aoki, Yuichi Kimura. Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to manufacture counterfeit money. She initially refuses, but eventually decides to join the project for the sake of the poor children in the village and her own mentally handicapped child.
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