Takatsuki

[tah-kuht-soo-kee, tuh-kaht-soo-kee, tah-kah-tsoo-kee]

noun

1. a city on S Honshu, in Japan: a suburb of Osaka.

Example Sentences

Vanya is envious and obsessed with what might have been; Kafuku is likewise unable to free himself from the past and looks jealously upon Takatsuki, whom he has cast in “Vanya” despite knowing of the affair.

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We can never be sure if Kafuku is playing an elaborate mind game with Takatsuki — or if, more heartbreaking still, he’s trying to extract some hidden truth about the woman he loved but never fully knew.

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In one extraordinary scene, Misaki drives both Kafuku and Takatsuki down a highway at night, and a space that was once a private shrine suddenly takes on the hushed quality of a confessional.

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Takatsuki struggles to suppress his youthful callowness and self-destructive temper, and in Okada’s sensitive performance, we see an alarming vision of another encroaching tragedy.

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And one of the actors in the production of "Uncle Vanya" is, surprisingly, Kôji Takatsuki.

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