Hometown

Overview

Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 15, 1983

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Cast

Yoshi Katō,Hiroyuki Nagato,Fumie Kashiyama,Susumu Asai,Gin Maeda,Kirin Kiki,Tokue Hanazawa,Kōjirō Kusanagi,Hiromitsu Suzuki,Ben Hiuraand 9 more

Director

Seijiro Koyama

Writer

Seijiro Koyama,Kōsuke Hirakata,Hiroshi Kobayashi

Producer

Seijiro Koyama,Yutaka Osawa,Toshio Goto

Cinematography

Fuminori Minami

Music

Masao Haryu

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0171332