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<div>I was able to ask director Hirose Nanako, who worked with Koreeda in the past. She says the actor playing Yoshiko is Taguchi Tomoya <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; display: inline !important">田口智也.</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 02 October 2024 13:06<br>
<b>To:</b> Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Alexander Jacoby <alexanderjacoby@brookes.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [KineJapan] Yoshio in Aruitemo aruitemo</font>
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<div>Can anyone name the actor who plays Yoshio in Koreeda's Aruitemo aruitemo / Still Walking? It's a small but vital role - the boy who elder son Junpei saved at the cost of his own life. In the film, where he features in one scene around the halfway mark
(starting 58 minutes in), he has become a lumpish and unprepossessing 25-year-old.</div>
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<div>No copy of the cast list I've found online in English or Japanese seems to include him. The minor cast members are listed but not associated with characters and none that I've Googled seem the right age. The end credits in the film list the actors only,
not the character names. The matter is further complicated by the fact that one of the lead actors is also a Yoshio [Harada], making English-language Google searches ambiguous, and I haven't yet found a Japanese-language plot summary that mentions the character
Yoshio by name so don't know what kanji are used for him!</div>
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<div>Any help gratefully received!</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>ALEX JACOBY</div>
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