Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story (2015)

Directed by Tetsuya Matsushima

Drama · 1h 34m

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.

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Cast

R
Ryûichirô Shibata Miho Kanazawa Noboru Kaneko Yoshiko Kayama Katsuya Kobayashi
A
Anne Kojima Kazunori Mimura
Y
Yûto Muguruma
H
Hiroshi Nagamoto Isao Natsuyagi Satoshi Nikaido
E
Eiko Ohtani

Crew

Director
Tetsuya Matsushima
Screenplay
Tetsuya Matsushima, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Editor
Seiichi Miyazawa, Kazutaka Shimizu
Producer
Seiichi Miyazawa, Yoshito Noda

Details

Original title
ソ満国境 15歳の夏
Release date
2015-08-01
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Japan Slow Cinema Network