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The Friends (1994)
Directed by Shinji Sōmai
“Things that pass, and things that can't be lost… One summer adventure story of three boys.”
Drama · 1h 53m
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
Cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Kihachi Denpo
N
Naoki Sakata
Jun Kiyama
Y
Yasutaka Oh
Kawabe
K
Ken'ichi Makino
Takeshi Yamashita
Akira Emoto
Nagatomo
Tsurube Shofukutei
Undertaker
Minori Terada
Taniguchi
Naho Toda
Shizuka Kondo
Shigeru Yazaki
Katsuhiro
Chikage Awashima
Yayoi Koko
R
Ritsuko Nemoto
Tomomi Kiyama
Y
Yôhei Hamanishi
Crew
- Director
- Shinji Sōmai
- Screenplay
- Yōzō Tanaka
- Novel
- Kazumi Yumoto
- Director of Photography
- Noboru Shinoda
- Original Music Composer
- Izumi Sakai
- Editor
- Yoshiyuki Okuhara
- Producer
- Hiroyuki Fujikado, Etsuhiro Katô
Details
- Original title
- 夏の庭 The Friends
- Release date
- 1994-03-12
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation