House of Himiko

For other uses, see Himiko.

House of Himiko
Directed by	Isshin Inudo
Produced by	Osamu Kubota Shinji Ogawa
Written by	Aya Watanabe
Starring	Joe Odagiri Kou Shibasaki Min Tanaka
Music by	Haruomi Hosono
Cinematography	Takahiro Tutai
Editing by	Hirohide Abe
Distributed by	Asmik Ace Entertainment
Release date(s)	August 27, 2005
Running time	130 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

House of Himiko (メゾン・ド・ヒミコ, Mezon do himiko^?), sometimes known in French as La Maison de Himiko (such as when it was shown at the Japanese film festival in Sydney in December 2006), is a Japanese film made in 2005.

It was directed by Isshin Inudo, and starred Kō Shibasaki as Saori, Min Tanaka as Saori's father Himiko, and Joe Odagiri as Haruhiko, Himiko's lover.

It tells the story of a girl (Saori) learning to forgive her homosexual father's abandonment of her as she was growing up.

References

Programme of 10th Sydney Japanese Film Festival, December 2006

External links

• Official Website
• House of Himiko at the Internet Movie Database
• House of Himiko at AllRovi