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Until the Lights Come Back

Until the Lights Come Back

20056.02h 12m

Overview

A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

Directed by Takashi Minamoto
Written by Takashi Minamoto
Produced by Miyako Araki
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Top Cast

Etsushi Toyokawa

Etsushi Toyokawa

Shinichi Kido

Tomoko Tabata

Tomoko Tabata

Nozomi Kanou

Tomorowo Taguchi

Tomorowo Taguchi

Ryotaro Saeki

Tomoyo Harada

Tomoyo Harada

Saeki's wife

Koji Kikkawa

Koji Kikkawa

Gingi

Shinobu Terajima

Shinobu Terajima

Reiko

Haruka Igawa

Haruka Igawa

Misuzo

Tsuyoshi Abe

Tsuyoshi Abe

Dong-Dong

Kanata Hongo

Kanata Hongo

Shota

Yuu Kashii

Yuu Kashii

Maiko

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Themes & Keywords

winterchristmas

About Until the Lights Come Back

Until the Lights Come Back is a drama film released in 2005 exploring themes of winter, christmas. Directed by Takashi Minamoto, it stars Etsushi Toyokawa, Tomoko Tabata, Tomorowo Taguchi. A Christmas Eve power outage provides a collection of troubled Tokyo denizens the opportunity to come clean on the misdeeds of their past.

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