Dumbeast (鈍獣) 14 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

Tadanobu Asano as Dekogawa

Yoko Minamino as Mama Junko

Kazuki Kitamura as Chi Edajima

Aimi Satsukawa as Nora

Yūsuke Santamaria as Okamoto

Yoko Maki as Shizuka

Dumbeast Cast

Name	Character
Tadanobu Asano He was 35, now 50 years old	as Dekogawa
Yoko Minamino She was 41, now 56 years old	as Mama Junko
Kazuki Kitamura He was 39, now 54 years old	as Chi Edajima
Aimi Satsukawa She was 20, now 35 years old	as Nora
Yūsuke Santamaria He was 38, now 53 years old	as Okamoto
Yoko Maki She was 26, now 41 years old	as Shizuka

Dumbeast Crew

Name	Department
Mr. Hide as Director.	Directing

Dumbeast (14 years)

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