
- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama, Romance
- Release: 2000-12-02
- Director: Kaneto Shindō
- Writers: Kaneto Shindô
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Naoto Takenaka , Keiko Oginome , Hideko Yoshida , Nobuko Otowa
- Runtime: 126 min
- Awards: 2 nominations
- AKA: 三文役者 (Japan) , By Player , Epizodní herec (Czech Republic) , Mellékszereplő (Hungary) , Actor secundario (Spain) , Sanmon yakusha , Aktor drugoplanowy (Poland)
- Plot:
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama’s alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.
- IMDB:tt0263963


By Player Cast

Kaneto Shindō
Director

Naoto Takenaka
Taiji Tonoyama

Keiko Oginome
Kimie

Hideko Yoshida
Taiji's wife

Nobuko Otowa
Okaji

Yasuhito Hida
Kei Satō
Yuriko Hirooka
Yoshiko

Hideyuki Kasahara
Yasuo
Kuriko Namino
Liquor Store Housewife

Masayuki Shionoya

Tokuko Watanabe
Eimei Esumi

Yoji Tanaka

Kaneto Shindō

Nao Omori

Takuji Suzuki
Reita Serizawa
Kirina Mano
Woman at Bar

Rinko Kikuchi