Dear Summer Sister (1972)
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
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Hiromi Kurita as Sunaoko Kikuchi |
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Hōsei Komatsu as Kôsuke Kikuchi |
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Lily as Momoko Kofujida |
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Akiko Koyama as Tsuru Ômura |
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Shōji Ishibashi as Tsuruo Ômura |
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Kei Satō as Shinkô Kuniyoshi |
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Taiji Tonoyama as Takuzo Sakurada |
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Rokkō Toura as Rintoku Teruya |
| Writing | Nagisa Ōshima | Writer |
| Directing | Nagisa Ōshima | Director |
| Writing | Tsutomu Tamura | Writer |
| Writing | Mamoru Sasaki | Writer |
| Directing | Shizuo Satô | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Kiyoshi Ogasawara | Assistant Director |
| Production | Kinshirō Kuzui | Executive Producer |
| Editing | Keiichi Uraoka | Editor |
| Sound | Tetsuo Yasuda | Sound Designer |
| Production | Eiko Oshima | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Akira Honma | Sound Effects Editor |
| Camera | Yasuhiro Yoshioka | Director of Photography |
| Art | Shigemasa Toda | Art Direction |
| Sound | Toru Takemitsu | Original Music Composer |