The Parting

A university boxing captain struggles between love and ambition as he secretly longs for a woman promised to another. When betrayal and heartbreak push him toward a professional career, loyalty and sacrifice draw him back—ending in a fight against gangsters, a lost championship, and a tearful farewell to youth.

• Hajime AraiScreenplay
• Shunkai MizuhoDirector

• Hiroshi MizuharaHiroshi Nakahara (University boxing club member)
• Kumi MizunoYuki Toyama
• Tadao TakashimaShuichi Nomoto (Aoi Construction engineer)
• Ken MitsudaGenzo Toyama (President of Aoi Construction, Yuki’s father)
• Fumie NoguchiMidori Yoneyama (Yuki’s friend)
• Kyōko AnzaiAkemi (Jockey Club waitress)
• Kensuke YairoYuji Osawa (Boxing club manager)
• Mitsuko YoshikawaSono Toyama (Genzo’s wife)
• 堀谷昭Masayuki Toyama
• Ayako AsoFusako (Waitress)
• Misako AsukaYoshiko (Waitress)
• Keiko SugataAkiko