Shangri-La (film)

Shangri-La
File:Shangri-La (film).jpg
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Music by	Kōji Endō
Cinematography	Hideo Yamamoto
Edited by	Yasushi Shimamura
Release dates	2002 (2002)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Shangri-La (Kin'yû hametsu Nippon: Tôgenkyô no hito-bito) is a 2002 film directed by Takashi Miike.

Plot

"Shangri-La" follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It's a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.

Cast

• Show Aikawa as Village headman
• Shirô Sano as Kuwata
• Yu Tokui as Seisuke Umemoto
• Midoriko Kimura as Fusae
• Kogan Ashiya as Uehara
• Akaji Maro as Ookura Nagashima
• Takashi Ebata as Matsui
• Yojin Hino as Takeda
• Toshiki Ayata as Etô
• Houka Kinoshita as Umekawa
• Shigeru Muroi as Mari

Other credits

• Writing credits:
  • Yuuji Aoki - novel Tôgenkyô no hito-bito
  • Masakuni Takahashi - screenplay
• Produced by
  • Yoichi Arishige - producer
  • Kazuhisa Kawaguchi - planner
  • Shusaku Matsuoka - producer
  • Kazushi Miki - producer
  • Tsuneo Ochi - executive producer
  • Ken Takeuchi - planner
  • Motomu Tomita - producer
  • Tsutomu Tsuchikawa - executive producer: Daiei
• Production Design: Akira Ishige
• Production Manager: Katsuhiro Ogawa
• Assistant Director: Bunmei Katô
• Sound Department
  • Yoshiya Obara - sound
  • Kenji Shibazaki - sound effects
• Lighting technician: Akira Ono

External links

• Shangri-La at IMDb