My Uncle

My Uncle

2016 · 110 min · ★ 6.3 · Comedy

Yukio Haruyama is an elementary school student. He has an uncle that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.

Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita · Written by Yasushi Sutô

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Ryuhei Matsuda Uncle
Riku Onishi Yukio Haruyama
Yoko Maki Eri Inaba
Shigeyuki Totsugi Shinsuke Aoki
Shinobu Terajima Setsuko Haruyama
Midoriko Kimura Aunt Tomoko
Gin Pun Chou Kyashi Inaba
Erika Toda Minori Yamada
Kenji Iwaya Kansei Sweets' Employee
Kankuro Kudo Sadao Haruyama

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