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41 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
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Cast
Hirohide Yakumaru
Masahiro Motoki
Toshikazu Fukawa
Naoko Amihama
Noriko Matsumoto
Hiroyuki Watanabe
Ginji Gaō
Kengo Komiya
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Seiji Izumi
- Writers
- Izo Hashimoto
- Languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
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The take
Seiji Izumi directs. Hiroaki Sugimura behind the camera. Tomoyo Oshima cuts. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 141 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
- 2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 3Directed by Seiji Izumi, shot by Hiroaki Sugimura. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 4Editor Tomoyo Oshima shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 5Hirohide Yakumaru and Masahiro Motoki and Toshikazu Fukawa carry the top of the cast.
- 6IMDB entry: tt0312427 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Hiroaki Sugimura
- Editing
- Tomoyo Oshima
- Runtime
- 100 min · 1h 40m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- JA
Also by
Seiji Izumi
Key crew
- MusicKentaro Haneda
- EditorTomoyo Oshima
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1985-04-27
