Eien no 1/2 explained

Eien no 1/2
Director:	Kichitaro Negishi
Screenplay:	Eiichi Uchida
Starring:	Saburō Tokitō Shinobu Otake
Studio:	Director's Company
Distributor:	Toho
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

, literally Half of Eternity, is a 1987 Japanese film directed by Kichitaro Negishi.

Synopsis

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza.^[1]

Cast

• Saburō Tokitō
• Shinobu Otake
• Tomoko Nakajima
  • Kazuko Yoshiyuki
• Takuzo Kawatani
• Masahiko Tsugawa
• Satomi Kobayashi
• Toshiya Fujita

Background

The film is based on the novel by .^[1]

Awards

9th Yokohama Film Festival^{[2] [3]}

• Won: Best Actor - Saburō Tokitō
• Won: 4th Best Film

12th Hochi Film Awards^[4]

• Won: Best Actress - Shinobu Otake

External links

• Web site: Eien no 1/2 . JMDB. Japanese.
• Web site: Eien no 1/2 at All Cinema. Japanese.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 永遠の１／２. AllCinema. 2011-11-28. Japanese.
2. Web site: 第９回ヨコハマ映画祭 １９８７年日本映画個人賞. 2010-12-14. Japanese. Yokohama Film Festival. 2012-09-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20120928063355/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/09-1987/09_1987_shou.html. dead.
3. Web site: １９８７年度 日本映画ベストテン. 2010-12-14. Japanese. Yokohama Film Festival. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235204/http://homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai/09-1987/09_1987_best10.html. 2016-03-03. dead.
4. Web site: 報知映画賞ヒストリー. 2010-01-26. Japanese. Cinema Hochi. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111005191135/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1987/. 2011-10-05.