Film
★ 7.2
2018
Penguin Highway
A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
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In 1980, Ayuko is a new transfer student in Okayama from Tokyo. She doesn't have any friends and relies on her boyfriend Hideo who is a college student. Ayuko likes to draw a romance manga of herself and her boyfriend. Ayuko's classmate, Takemi, becomes a huge fan of Ayuko's manga and they become close friends. Due to an incident though, they drift apart. 30 years later, Ayuko is now a manga artist and comes back to Okayama to give a lecture at her former high school. There, Ayuko meets Takemi who is now a teacher.
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Rika Adachi
Takemi Akimoto (young)
Mio Yuki
Ayuko Sasaoka (young)
Yuri Shirahane
Ayuko Sasaoka (adult)
Aran Kei
Takemi Akimoto (adult)
Kenta Suga
Jun Suzuki
Masato Yano
Hideho
Misako Momose
Mizuno Sasayama
Toshie Negishi
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Masahiro Komoto
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Natsumi Ishizaki
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Tomoya Maeno
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Mitsuko Oka
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Chika Yamane
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Masao Ōmori
greengrocer (uncredited)
2018
A fourth-grader investigates the mysterious reason behind the sudden appearance of penguins in his village, which is somehow related to a power from a young woman working at a dental clinic.
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2015
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2005
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2008
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2001
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2017
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2022
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2012
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1997
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2021
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2017
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2002
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