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Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky

70 %|Mar 31, 2007|Drama

A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who befriends him as he sets up his shop, Kyo-ya and in spite of the difficulties stemming from cultural differences between the two ancient capitals including the favored taste of tofu itself, they eventually marry and become the owner of a tofu shop on a more respectable street. Behind the rock-solid business of Kyo-ya, their son, Eitaro bears the brunt of other tofu shops' animosity toward Kyo-ya's refusal to comply with Edo's way of running business and starts to frequent a gambling hall run by the mysterious "Boss", which throws the family into a critical situation that threaten to pull them apart...

Featured Crew

Masahiro Shinoda
Screenplay
Taro Iwashiro
Original Music Composer
Masaki Hamamoto
Director
Masao Nagai
Producer
Masaharu Inaba
Executive Producer
Masaki Hamamoto
Screenplay
Ichiriki Yamamoto
Novel
Tatsuo Suzuki
Director of Photography