Gray Sunset

Gray Sunset (花いちもんめ, Hana Ichi Monme) is a 1985 Japanese film directed by Shunya Ito. It was Japan's submission to the 58th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[2] It won the award for Best Film at the Japan Academy Prize ceremony.^[3]

Gray Sunset
Theatrical poster for Gray Sunset (1985)
Directed by	Shunya Ito[1]
Written by	Hirō Matsuda
Starring	Yukiyo Toake Minoru Chiaki
Cinematography	Isamu Iguchi
Edited by	Isamu Ichida
Music by	Shinichirō Ikebe
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	10 October 1985 (1985-10-10)
Running time	122 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Cast

• Yukiyo Toake – Keiko Takano
• Minoru Chiaki – Fuyukichi Takano
• Teruhiko Saigo – Haruo Takano
• Yumiko Nogawa – Nobue Kaneko
• Haruko Kato – Kikuyo Takano
• Yoshiko Nakada – Tomoko Iizuka
• Sayoko Ninomiya – Mitsue Takano
• Ittoku Kishibe – Yoshikazu Ishimoto

See also

• Cinema of Japan
• List of submissions to the 58th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film