Description
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.
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Release Date1999
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Runtime2 hr 3 min
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Languageja
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Rating0 (0)
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Genres
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DirectorNobuhiko Obayashi
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CastTakuro Atsuki小林桂樹菅井きん嶋田久作松田美由紀Nanami Sano勝野雅奈恵石田ひかり宮﨑あおいKatsuya KoisoShinya YamamotoShiho Akutagawa入江若葉上田耕一林泰文天宮良ベンガル根岸季衣五十嵐信次郎大前均大和田伸也Kunihiko HisamitsuShuichi Yamauchi
