River of Fireflies
螢川1987
The boy sees the fate of men. The girl knows how women's lives are.
- Eizō Sugawa
- 1h 55m
- February 21, 1987 · Japan
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 21, 1987
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Kinema Tokyo,Nichiei
- Cast
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki,Hideji Ōtaki,Takayuki Sakazume,Yukiyo Toake,Tamae Sawada,Taiji Tonoyama,Takuzō Kawatani,Tomoko Naraoka,Ken Teraizumi,Rentaro Mikuni
- Director
- Eizō Sugawa
- Cinematography
- Shinsaku Himeda
- Music
- Masatsugu Shinozaki
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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