Himitsu (film)

1999 Japanese film

Himitsu

Directed by| Yōjirō Takita
Written by| Hiroshi Saitō
Based on| Naoko
by Keigo Higashino
Produced by| Yasuhiro Mase
Junichi Sindo
Setsuro Tagami
Starring| Ryōko Hirosue
Kaoru Kobayashi
Kayoko Kishimoto
Ken Kaneko
Yuriko Ishida
Hideaki Itō
Music by| Mariya Takeuchi
Ryudo Uzaki
Distributed by| TBS

Release date

* 25 September 1999 (1999-09-25)

Running time

| 119 minutes
Country| Japan
Language| Japanese

Himitsu (秘密) is a 1999 Japanese fantasy romance film directed by Yōjirō Takita, starring Ryōko Hirosue, Kaoru Kobayashi and Kayoko Kishimoto[1] and based on the novel Naoko by Keigo Higashino. It was released on 25 September 1999. An English-language French remake, The Secret, was released in 2007.

## Cast

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* Ryōko Hirosue
* Kaoru Kobayashi
* Kayoko Kishimoto
* Ken Kaneko
* Yuriko Ishida
* Hideaki Itō

## Reception

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It was chosen as the runner-up in the Best 10 films at the 21st Yokohama Film Festival.[2]

Award  | Date  | Category  | Recipients and
nominees  | Result

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Sitges Film Festival[3][4] | October 2000  | Best Actress  | Ryōko Hirosue | Won
Best Screenplay  | Hiroshi Saitō | Won
Best Film  | Himitsu | Nominated

## References

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1. ^ 秘密 (1999). allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
2. ^ １９９９年度 日本映画ベストテン. homepage3.nifty.com/yokohama-eigasai (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 July 2014.
3. ^ "Awards 2000". sitgesfilmfestival.com. Archived from the original on 6 November 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
4. ^ "Films". sitgesfilmfestival.com. Archived from the original on 1 November 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2014.

## External links

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* Himitsu at IMDb

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Films directed by Yōjirō Takita

* Comic Magazine (1986)
* Time Adventure: Zeccho 5-byo Mae (1986)
* Itoshino Half Moon (1987)
* Kimurake no Hitobito (1988)
* Nemuranai Machi: Shinjuku Same (1993)
* We Are Not Alone (1993)
* Sharan Q no enka no hanamichi (1997)
* Himitsu (1999)
* Onmyōji (2001)
* Onmyōji 2 (2003)
* When the Last Sword Is Drawn (2003)
* Ashurajō no Hitomi (2005)
* The Battery (2007)
* Departures (2008)
* Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer (2012)
* The Last Recipe (2017)
* Sakura Guardian in the North (2018)

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