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River of Fireflies

02/21/1987

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1hr 55min

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Drama

The boy sees the fate of men. The girl knows how women's lives are.

STORY

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Rentaro Mikuni
  • Yukiyo Toake
  • Tamae Sawada
  • Takayuki Sakazume
  • Takuzō Kawatani

    Director

  • Eizō Sugawa

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Nichiei
  • Kinema Tokyo

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni

Yukiyo Toake

Tamae Sawada

Takayuki Sakazume

Takio Mizushima

Takuzō Kawatani

Ken Teraizumi

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Taiji Tonoyama

Hideji Ōtaki

Tomoko Naraoka