Movie: Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

Top 10 Billed Cast

Ryûichirô Shibata
Ryûichirô Shibata

Miho Kanazawa
金澤美穂

Noboru Kaneko
金子昇

Yoshiko Kayama
香山美子

Katsuya Kobayashi
小林且弥

Anne Kojima
Anne Kojima

Kazunori Mimura
三村和敬

Yûto Muguruma
六車勇登

Hiroshi Nagamoto
Hiroshi Nagamoto

Isao Natsuyagi
夏八木勲

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    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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    2015-08-01

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    5

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    日本語
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