River of Fireflies

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River of Fireflies (1987)

Directed by Eizō Sugawa

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

Drama · 1h 55m

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.

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Cast

Rentaro Mikuni Yukiyo Toake
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Tamae Sawada Takayuki Sakazume Takio Mizushima Takuzō Kawatani Ken Teraizumi Chōichirō Kawarasaki Taiji Tonoyama Hideji Ōtaki Tomoko Naraoka

Crew

Director
Eizō Sugawa
Screenplay
Eizō Sugawa, Kyōhei Nakaoka
Director of Photography
Shinsaku Himeda
Original Music Composer
Masatsugu Shinozaki
Editor
Jun Nabeshima
Producer
Kiyoshi Fujimoto

Details

Original title
螢川
Release date
1987-02-21
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Nichiei, Kinema Tokyo