The Blue Bird (2008)

Year
2008

Runtime
105 minutes (1 hr 45 mins)

Yûko Araki

Hiroshi Abe

Kanata Hongo

Ayumi Ito

Hajime Inoue

Osamu Shigematu

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Japan
24th July 2009

17 years 1 months 2 days ago

Taiwan
14th September 2012

13 years 11 months 12 days ago

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Directed by
	Kenji Nakanishi

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Japan release date: 29th November 2008
Japan release date: 24th July 2009
Taiwan release date: 14th September 2012

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Starring
	Hiroshi Abe	Mr. Murauchi
	Kanata Hongo	Shinichi Sonobe
	Ayumi Ito	Ms. Shimazaki
	Hajime Inoue	Mr. Ishino
	Osamu Shigematu	Mr. Miyazaki
	Hiroyuki Kishi	Mr. Koizumi
	Shuta Aoki
	Moe Arai	Hayakawa
	Yûko Araki	Katayama
	Nao Ishizaki
	Hiroto Ito
	Moe Karasawa
	Shohei Kawakami
	Takuya Koizumi
	Ryo Minami
	Moe Miura
	Tomi Nakaho
	Taiga Nakano	Takechi Inoue
	Tsugumi Shinohara
	Tatsuya Suzuki	Umeda
	Riho Takada	Chiba
	Yuki Takagi
	Taiga Tanaka
	Kazuhiro Yamaga
	Kazuya Yamazaki	Noguchi

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