Dotonbori River

Kunihiko Yasuoka (Hiroyuki Sanada), a 19-year-old young man who loves painting ) was admitted to the art department of a certain university, but his life changed. The sudden death of his mother was a huge blow to this unexperienced young man. A middle-aged man named Tetsuo Takeuchi (played by Tsutomu Yamazaki) who runs a coffee shop next to the Dotonbori River sympathized with Kunihiko's experience, so he paid for the burial of his mother and left her to help in the shop. Tetsuo's son Masao (played by Hiroshi Sato) is obsessed with billiards and gambling, and the relationship between father and son is tense. Therefore, Tetsuo treats Kunihiko, who has lofty ideals, as his own son and takes great care of him, while Masao sinks deeper and deeper into the quagmire of gambling. One day, Kunihiko met the graceful Machiko (played by Keiko Matsuzaka) while sketching on the bridge. The wonderful fate quietly unfolded at this moment... This film is adapted from the original work of the same name in Teru Miyamoto's "River Trilogy" ("River of Mud", "Hotabori River", "Dotonbori River").