
Movie: Her Granddaughter (English title) / A Man's Life (literal title)
Romaji: Otoko no Isshou
Japanese: 娚の一生
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Writer: Keiko Nishi (manga)
Producer:
Cinematographer:
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Runtime: 119 min.
Distributor: Showgate
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
**Plot**
Tsugumi Dozono (Nana Eikura) works at a large electronics company in Tokyo. She likes to spend long vacations at her grandmother’s house in the countryside. One day, her grandmother passes away and Tsugumi Dozono decides to live in her grandmother's house while working from home. She finds a strange middle-aged man in the house. The man's name is Jun Kaieda (Etsushi Toyokawa).
Jun Kaieda tells Tsugumi that he is her grandmother’s ex-student and her grandmother gave him a key to the annex house. Tsugumi, who does not know the exact relationship between her grandmother and Jun, begins to live with him.
**Notes**
Based on the manga series "Otoko no Isshou" by Keiko Nishi (published from September, 2008 to February, 2010 in monthly josei manga magazine Flowers).
Filming begins May, 2014.
**Cast**
Nana Eikura as Tsugumi Dozono
Etsushi Toyokawa as Jun Kaieda
Osamu Mukai as Toshio Nakagawa
Sakura Ando as Misaki Akimoto
Tomoya Maeno as Tetushi Sonoda
Motoki Ochiai as Takahiro Tomono
Toshie Negishi as Kyoko Dozono
Mari Hamada as Sayoko
Yu Tokui as Tamio
Hana Kino as Yoshiko Sakata
Minami as Jun's secretary
Mayuko Iwasa as Harumi Tomioka
Chiharu Konno as Towa Shimoyashiki
Erika Asakura as Miyuki Namazuta
Ruka Wakabayashi as Makoto Tomioka
Kentaro Sakaguchi
Shinobu Dozono
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