Billiken (1996)

★ 7.0 1h 40m 1 votes IMDb
Drama Fantasy
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The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.

Billiken

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Cast

Tetta Sugimoto
Tetta Sugimoto as Billiken Age 61 · Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Tomoko Yamaguchi
Tomoko Yamaguchi as Tsukino Age 61 · Tochigi, Japan ​Tomoko Yamaguchi (born October 20, 1964) is a Japanese actress and singer from Tochigi. She is the lead actress for the classic j-drama Long Vacation, which features her starring alongside with Takuy...
Ittoku Kishibe
Ittoku Kishibe Age 79 · Kyoto, Japan Ittoku Kishibe (岸部一徳) is a Japanese actor, bassist, and lyricist. He originally entered showbusiness as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands The Tigers, PYG, and Inoue Takayuki Band, but later swi...
Shigeru Izumiya
Shigeru Izumiya Age 78 · Aomori, Aomori, Japan Actor and singer.
Eiji Minakata
Eiji Minakata Died 2010 · Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Jun Kunimura
Jun Kunimura Age 70 · Kumamoto, Japan Jun Kunimura (國村 隼 Kunimura Jun, born November 16, 1955 in Kumamoto, Japan) is a Japanese actor known for his role as boss Tanaka in Kill Bill Vol. 1 from Quentin Tarantino or Ikemoto in Outrage from...
Director Junji Sakamoto
Cast Tetta Sugimoto, Ryûtarô Gan, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Ittoku Kishibe, Shigeru Izumiya, Eiji Minakata, Jun Kunimura, Yoshio Harada

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