Dumbeast (鈍獣) 15 years old

How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist Dekogawa who has mysteriously disappeared. Dekogawa wrote an autobiography about his youth that reveals not only his past, but also some of his childhood friends’ best-forgotten secrets. In order to keep the skeletons in the closet, these buddies of yesteryear try to silence him permanently. But no matter how hard they try to kill Dekogawa, he just keeps coming back – because he’s simply too thickheaded to die!

Credits

Dumbeast Cast

Name Character
Tadanobu Asano He was 35, now 51 years old as Dekogawa
Yoko Minamino She was 41, now 57 years old as Mama Junko
Kazuki Kitamura He was 39, now 55 years old as Chi Edajima
Aimi Satsukawa She was 20, now 36 years old as Nora
Yūsuke Santamaria He was 38, now 53 years old as Okamoto
Yoko Maki She was 26, now 42 years old as Shizuka

Dumbeast Crew

Name Department
Mr. Hide as Director. Directing
Dumbeast poster
Dumbeast (15 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, May 16, 2009
  • Runtime: 106 minutes