Movie: 69 Romaji: 69 sixty nine Japanese: 69 sixty nine Director: Sang-il Lee Assistant Director: Masaharu Take Writer: Ryu Murakami, Kankuro Kudo Producer: Shigeo Yokomizo, Mitsuru Kurosawa, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Hiroshi Date, Kei Ijichi, Masatake Kondo, Yuji Saito Cinematographer Kouzou Shibazaki Release Date: July 10, 2004 Runtime: 114 min. Genre: Award Winning / Award Winning-Drama / Award Winning-Teen / Award Winning-Comedy / Award Winning-Period-1960 Distributor: Toei Language: Japanese Country: Japan **Plot** Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, 1969: inspired by the iconoclastic example of Dylan, Kerouac, Godard and Che, a band of mildly disaffected teenagers led by the smilingly charismatic Ken (Satoshi Tsumabuki) decide to shake up "the establishment" - i.e. their repressive school and the nearby US military installation. A series of anarchic pranks meets with varying levels of success, until Ken and company focus their energies on mounting a multimedia ‘happening' to combine music, film and theatre. Complications ensue. **Cast** Satoshi Tsumabuki - Kenichi Yazaki Masanobu Ando - Tadashi "Adama" Yamada Yuta Kanai - Manabu Iwase Asami Mizukawa - Mie Nagayama Rina Ohta - Kazuko "Lady Jane" Matsui Yoko Mitsuya - Yumi Sato Hirofumi Arai - Bancho Hideko Hara - Kenichi's mother Ittoku Kishibe - Matsunaga sensei Jun Kunimura - Sasaki Kyohei Shibata - Kenichi's father Noriko Eguchi Tasuku Emoto - Tatsuo Masugaki Gen Hoshino - Yuzuru Nakamura Haruka Igawa - Alpharomeo girl Ryo Kase - Ryo Otaki Rinko Kikuchi Kenta Kiritani - Yuji Shirogushi Fumiyo Kohinata - Yoshioka sensei Hidekazu Mashima Rie Minemura - Fumiko sensei Yoko Mitsuya Akifumi Miura - Goro Narushima Yosuke Miyauchi - Shirai Yoshiyuki Morishita - Adachi Jun Murakami - Yakuza Shunsuke Sawada - Ezaki Toshiyuki Seyama - Scribe Kyusaku Shimada - Aihara sensei Suzunosuke Kosuke Toyohara - Kawasaki sensei Yoshiyaki Yoza - Kiyoshi Fukushima Sosuke Nishiyama Erika Asakura **Awards** 2004 (29th) Hochi Film Awards - December, 2004 "Best Actor" (Satoshi Tsumabuki)