Winner
Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Jury Prize for Best Feature - Lesbian (2001)
AsianWomenDirectorsPublic Beta
Lily Festival
百合祭
Directed by Sachi Hamano (浜野佐知)
2001•100 min
- Genre
- Comedy
- Topic
- Body & Self
- Mood
- Bold
- Language
- Japanese
- Featured in
- Queer Lives, Up Close
Synopsis
Sachi Hamano's Yurisai (Lily Festival) is about a man (Mickey Curtis) in his seventies who comes to live in an apartment building that also houses seven elderly women. The film examines the ladies' sexual desires as the man proceeds to woo each of them. Kazuko Yoshiyuki portrays one of the female residents. The film was adapted from a novel by Houko Momotani and was screened at the Montreal World Film Festival.
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Main Cast
Kazuko YoshiyukiRie Miyano
Mickey CurtisTerujiro Miyoshi
Utae ShōjiUmeka Mariko
Kazuko ShirakawaRenako Yokota
Sanae NakaharaTeruko Satoyama
Chisako HaraAtsuko Namiki
Hisako ÔkataYoshi Kitagawa
Sachiko MeguroNene TotsukaDirector
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