Toads Oil (2009)

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Venerated actor Koji Yakusho (Shall We Dance?, Tokyo Sonata, The Eel), in his directorial debut, also writes and stars in the charming drama Toad's Oil .It's a story about an egocentric high-rolling daytrader who claims he can earn hundreds of millions of yen in one day, and for those around him as they attempt to cope when his son falls into a coma after a devasting car accident. A chain of events is set to occur set-off by the father taking a phone call from an unsuspecting girl named Hikari. The father pretends to be his son ...