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Her Love Boils Bathwater

Her Love Boils Bathwater

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Her Love Boils Bathwater

2016

2h 5m

7.4(62 votes)

Drama

Overview

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.

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Pipeline

NTT Plala

THE KLOCKWORX

TV Tokyo

Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures

Hikari TV

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Rie Miyazawa

Rie Miyazawa

Futaba Kono

Hana Sugisaki

Hana Sugisaki

Azumi Kono

Joe Odagiri

Joe Odagiri

Kazuhiro Kono

Tori Matsuzaka

Tori Matsuzaka

Takumi Mukai

Aoi Ito

Aoi Ito

Ayuko Katase

Yukiko Shinohara

Yukiko Shinohara

Kimie Sakamaki

Taro Suruga

Taro Suruga

Takimoto

Nanoka Matsubara

Rumi Miyata

Shuhei Eto

Kagetora Miura

Mr. Aso

Creative team

Directed by: Ryota Nakano
Written by: Ryota Nakano
Produced by: Kazumi Fukase
Yusuke Wakabayashi

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