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Tengoku no honya - koibi

IMDb ID: tt0423360 · Year: 2004 · Rating: 6.5 (377 votes)

Genres: Drama · Romance

KENTA (Tetsuji Tamayama), a young pianist who has just lost his job, is drowning his woes at a bar, when he meets a man in a Hawaiian shirt named YAMAKI (Yoshio Harada). He invites Kenta to work with him, and the next thing he kno...

IMDb Details

Content TypeMovieAlternate TitlesUnited States: Heaven's Bookstore
World-wide: Heaven's Bookstore (English)
Brazil: Livraria Celestial
Japan: 天国の本屋 恋火 (Japanese)
Taiwan: 天國的書店
China: 天堂书屋 (Mandarin)
Heaven's Bookstore
Release Date2004-06-05Runtime111 minutesIMDb Popularity0User Reviews5Critic Reviews4Countries / RegionsJapanLanguagesJapaneseKeywordsbased on novelProduction CompaniesTengoku no Hon'ya: Koibi Film PartnersIMDb URLhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423360/Local Poster/d/file/imdb/04/tt0423360.jpgUpdated At2025-02-11T09:45:57

Stars

Yûko Takeuchi
Tetsuji Tamayama
Karina
Hirofumi Arai
Teruyuki Kagawa
Yoshio Harada
Ayumu Saitô
Akashi Takei
Yasunari Takeshima

Directors

Tetsuo Shinohara

Writers

Atsushi Matsuhisa
Wataru Tanaka
Kyôko Inukai
Tetsuo Shinohara

Full Cast & Crew

[Cast Group]
Actor: Yûko Takeuchi | Character: Shoko, Natsuko
Actor: Tetsuji Tamayama | Character: Kenta
Actor: Karina | Character: Yui
Actor: Hirofumi Arai | Character: Satoshi
Actor: Teruyuki Kagawa | Character: Takimoto
Actor: Yoshio Harada | Character: Yamaki
Actor: Ayumu Saitô | Character: Actor
Actor: Akashi Takei | Character: Actor
Actor: Yasunari Takeshima | Character: Bookstore customer

[Directors Group]
Name: Tetsuo Shinohara | Role: Director

[Writers Group]
Name: Atsushi Matsuhisa | Role: Writer
Name: Wataru Tanaka | Role: Writer
Name: Kyôko Inukai | Role: Writer
Name: Tetsuo Shinohara | Role: Writer

[Producers Group]
Name: Nozomi Enoki | Role: Producer
Name: Chiaki Noji | Role: Producer
Name: Nobuyuki Tôya | Role: Producer

[Cinematography Group]
Name: Shôgo Ueno | Role: Cinematographer

[Camera and Electrical Department]
Name: Shinichi Chiba | Role: Camera and Electrical Department
Name: Sayuri Suzuki | Role: Camera and Electrical Department

Trailers

IMDb Video Gallery: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0423360/videogallery/

Release Schedule

China: June 5, 2004 (Shanghai International Film Festival)
Japan: June 5, 2004
Hong Kong: April 28, 2005
South Korea: April 27, 2006

Awards

Nominee | 2004 | Shanghai International Film Festival | Golden Goblet | Best Film | Tetsuo Shinohara, Heaven's Bookstore

Box Office

Hong Kong: USD 62588
Japan: USD 1151286
Taiwan: USD 8891
Period: Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2005 | Rank: 147 | Weeks in release: 1 | Theaters: 20 | Gross to date: USD 62588 | Interval gross: USD 62588 | Per theater average: USD 3129