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House of Himiko (メゾン・ド・ヒミコ, Mezon do himiko ), also known internationally as La Maison de Himiko, is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Isshin Inudo and starring Kō Shibasaki as Saori, Min Tanaka as Saori's father Himiko, and Joe Odagiri as Haruhiko, Himiko's lover. The film was shown at the Japanese film festival in Sydney in December 2006 (as La Maison de Himiko).




Plot


Saori is a young woman struggling to make her way in life. Her gay father, Himiko, had abandoned Saori and her mother years before. Now her father's young lover Haruhiko shows up to tell Saori that her father is dying of cancer. Still angry with her father but in need of money, Saori travels to the House of Himiko, a nursing home established by her father for gay men. Over time, a tenuous relationship begins to develop between Saori, her father, and Haruhiko.




Cast


Jō Odagiri as Haruhiko
Ko Shibasaki as Saori
Min Tanaka as Tanaka
Hidetoshi Nishijima as Hosokawa
Torauemon Utazawa as Ruby
Kira Aoyama as Yamazaki




Reception


In 2007, the film won the Nippon Cinema Award at the Nippon Connection Film Festival.




References






External links


Official Website Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
House of Himiko at IMDb
House of Himiko at AllMovie
メゾン・ド・ヒミコ at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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• Joe Odagiri
• Haruomi Hosono
• Daftar film bertema lesbian, gay, biseksual dan transgender
• Kuil Ōmiwa
• Konflik Soga-Mononobe
• Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan
• Megumi Hayashibara
• Ayumi Hamasaki
• House of Himiko
• Himiko
• Himiko (disambiguation)
• Himiko (film)
• List of Japanese-language films
• Joe Odagiri
• List of LGBTQ-related films
• Min Tanaka
• Ko Shibasaki
• Hidetoshi Nishijima (actor)