Oct 29, 2016
125 min
Full-HD

Her Love Boils Bathwater (2016)

After being diagnosed with a terminal illness, Futaba resolves to spend her remaining time reuniting her broken family, reopening the long-closed bathhouse, and helping her shy daughter Azumi learn to stand on her own.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Pipeline NTT Plala THE KLOCKWORX TV Tokyo Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures Hikari TV

Rie Miyazawa

Futaba Kono

Hana Sugisaki

Azumi Kono

Joe Odagiri

Kazuhiro Kono

Tori Matsuzaka

Takumi Mukai

Aoi Ito

Ayuko Katase

Yukiko Shinohara

Kimie Sakamaki

Taro Suruga

Takimoto

Nanoka Matsubara

Rumi Miyata

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