Performing Kaoru’s Funeral
When a screenwriter named Kaoru dies suddenly, she leaves behind a tangle of relations who are all pulled together for the final act in her life: performing her funeral. The chief mourner is her ex-husband, Jun. A failed actor, he drifts around Tokyo as a driver for callgirls. He has to clean himself up to lead the ceremony down in the small village in Okayama that Kaoru came from. There, he meets a host of eccentric characters, TV people and Kaoru's daughter.
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Yuasa Noriko was born Dec. 3rd, 1976 in Okayama, Japan and specializes in project planning, directing. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan University with a BA of Architecture and started working in Kinoshita Production in 1999. She left the company in 2013 and is currently working as a freelance director/producer in the fields of TV drama and film.