CinemaOSMovie · 2015 · 1h 34m

Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

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Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.

Directed byTetsuya Matsushima

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 34m
Language
JA
Released
August 1, 2015
Studios
Japan Slow Cinema Network

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring

Ryûichirô Shibata

Miho Kanazawa

Miho Kanazawa

Noboru Kaneko

Noboru Kaneko

Yoshiko Kayama

Yoshiko Kayama

Katsuya Kobayashi

Katsuya Kobayashi

Anne Kojima

Kazunori Mimura

Kazunori Mimura

Yûto Muguruma

Hiroshi Nagamoto

Isao Natsuyagi

Isao Natsuyagi

Creative team
Directed by
Tetsuya Matsushima
Written by
Tetsuya Matsushima
Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Produced by
Seiichi Miyazawa
Yoshito Noda

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