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| Directed by | Takeshi Kobayashi |
| Screenplay by | Shunji Iwai Chika Kan |
| Based on | Good Dreams by Chika Kan |
| Produced by | Takeshi Kobayashi Shunji Iwai |
| Starring | Jin Akanishi Kie Kitano Kengo Kora Yuki Shibamoto Nobuaki Kaneko Hideyuki Kasahara |
| Cinematography | Kôji Onomichi |
| Edited by | Takeshi Kobayashi |
| Music by | Takeshi Kobayashi |
| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 119 minutes |
| Language | Japanese |
| Box office | $4,489,883[1] |
Bandage (バンデイジ, bandeiji), stylized as BANDAGE, is a 2010 Japanese independent film directed by Takeshi Kobayashi, who also served as the editor, producer and composer and written and produced by Shunji Iwai. Based on the original novel Good Dreams (グッドドリームズ, guddodorīmuzu) by Chika Kan, Iwai adapted it along with Kan and renamed it Bandage.
The movie title has actually two meanings, a literal one, which is a play on the words "Band Age", because the story takes place in Japan's early 1990s, the boom of indie rock bands.[2] And a figurative one, in which a certain character uses music as a "bandage" to heal the feeling of worthlessness.
- ^ "Bandage".
- ^ "Asia Pacific Arts: American Film Market 2009: Japanese films". Asiapacificarts.usc.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-11-26. Retrieved 2012-10-06.