Jun 18, 1994
118 min
Full-HD

Turning Point (1994)

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Category

Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Yumiko Minami

Masahiko Tsugawa

Toyosaki

Morio Kazama

Shibukawa

Miki Fujitani

Chie Minami

Ittoku Kishibe

Sakakibara, The Politician

Tadao Takashima

Asaoka

Takehiko Maeda

Hasegawa, The Director

Toshinori Omi

Fujimura, The Prime Minister's Secretary

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