Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

08/01/2015

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1hr 34min

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Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ryûichirô Shibata
  • Miho Kanazawa
  • Noboru Kaneko
  • Yoshiko Kayama
  • Katsuya Kobayashi

    Directors

  • Kazuhiko Ishida
  • Shigeji Yoshida
  • Naoyuki Tomomatsu

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Japan Slow Cinema Network

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese