| Tengoku no honya | |
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| Directed by | Tetsuo Shinohara |
| Produced by | Nozomu Enoki Nobuyuki Tohya |
| Written by | Atsushi Matsuhisa Wataru Tanaka |
| Starring | Tetsuji Tamayama Yuko Takeuchi Yoshio Harada Teruyuki Kagawa |
| Cinematography | Shogo Ueno |
| Release date(s) | June 5, 2004 |
| Running time | 111 min. Tetsuo Shinohara (篠原 哲雄 Shinohara Tetsuo, born 9 February 1962 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese Film director. is a Japanese TV and film Actor. He is youngest of four children having three older sisters is a Japanese actress She made her big break with NHK 's television series Asuka and JT Green 's commercial is a Japanese Actor. A veteran of over 80 films he has twice been nominated for the Best Actor Japanese Academy Award. Teruyuki Kagawa (香川照之 born 7 December 1965) is a Japanese Actor. Events 70 - Titus and his Roman Legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " |
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| Language | Japanese |
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Heaven's Bookstore (天国の本屋 'Tengoku no honya?) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara about a struggling classical pianist who is sent to heaven to work in a bookstore. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Tetsuo Shinohara (篠原 哲雄 Shinohara Tetsuo, born 9 February 1962 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese Film director. It is based on two novels, written by Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story
Kenta (Tetsuji Tamayama), a classical pianist, is fired from his orchestra, and gets drunk in a bar. is a Japanese TV and film Actor. He is youngest of four children having three older sisters He wakes up the following morning in what turns out to be a bookstore in heaven. The owner of the bookstore had brought him there, and explains that people live to be 100; people who die before this age go to heaven to live out the rest of their allotted time, before they are reborn on earth.
In heaven he meets Shoko (Yuko Takeuchi), a pianist who he had admired on earth. is a Japanese actress She made her big break with NHK 's television series Asuka and JT Green 's commercial Together, they start work on a special composition that she had started writing but not finished on earth.
Meanwhile, on earth, Shoko's niece Natsuko (also played by Yuko Takeuchi) wants to organise a fireworks display that was discontinued twelve years ago. It turns out that Shoko had been engaged to Takimoto (Teruyuki Kagawa), a talented firework maker, but her hearing had been damaged by a firework accident he caused. Teruyuki Kagawa (香川照之 born 7 December 1965) is a Japanese Actor. As a result she stopped playing music, he stopped making fireworks, they split up, and later she died.
Natsuko wants Takimoto to make his special 'loving fireworks' for the fireworks display. These are the special fireworks that inspired Shoko to compose her special composition, uncompleted when Takimoto stopped making them. He is vehnemently opposed to making fireworks again.
However, at the end of the firework display 'loving fireworks' unexpectedly appear in the sky, set-off by Takimoto. Kenta returns to earth and plays Shoko's now completed composition to accompany them. Natsuko and Kenta meet. They run off laughing into the dark.