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In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull while digging foundations at a construction site and takes it home. Is it a Japanese wolf’s skull?
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In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull while digging foundations at a construction site and takes it home. Is it a Japanese wolf’s skull?
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Genre:Drama, Fantasy
Written By:Masakazu Kaneko, Genki Yoshimura
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Runtime:104 minutes
Studio:kinone, Project Dawn, Laughter, monkey syndicate
Cast
Masakazu Kaneko
Director
Show Kasamatsu
Ma Sosuke
Junko Abe
Midori Kawauchi / Kozue
Ken Yasuda
Seiichi Kawauchi
Reiko Kataoka
Aiko Kawauchi
Hatsunori Hasegawa
Ginzo
Tōru Shinagawa
Kota Kawauchi (old age)
Yoji Tanaka
Shioya
Shunta Ito
Kota Kawauchi (boy)
Michiyo Yokoyama
Momoko Kawauchi
Ryuta Furuya
Toshiro Kawauchi
Shūichirō Masuda
Daishi Naito
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