Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story (2015)
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.
Director:
Tetsuya Matsushima
Writers:
Tetsuya Matsushima, Naoyuki Tomomatsu.
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Ryûichirô Shibata as |
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Miho Kanazawa as |
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Noboru Kaneko as |
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Yoshiko Kayama as |
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Katsuya Kobayashi as |
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Anne Kojima as |
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Kazunori Mimura as |
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Yûto Muguruma as |
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Hiroshi Nagamoto as |
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Isao Natsuyagi as |
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Satoshi Nikaido as |
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Eiko Ohtani as |
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Leo Sawada as |
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Hiroya Shimizu as |
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Naoya Shimizu as |
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Min Tanaka as |
| Directing | Tetsuya Matsushima | Director |
| Writing | Kazuo Tahara | Original Story |
| Writing | Tetsuya Matsushima | Screenplay |
| Writing | Naoyuki Tomomatsu | Screenplay |
| Production | Tetsuya Matsushima | Executive Producer |
| Production | Seiichi Miyazawa | Producer |
| Production | Yoshito Noda | Producer |
| Sound | Koji Ueno | Music |
| Crew | Kazuo Okuhara | Cinematography |
| Editing | Seiichi Miyazawa | Editor |
| Editing | Kazutaka Shimizu | Editor |
| Art | Hisayuki Kobayashi | Art Direction |
| Art | Tsuyoshi Shôjima | Art Direction |
| Lighting | Makoto Tabe | Gaffer |
| Production | Kenji Miyagawa | Unit Production Manager |
| Directing | Kazuhiko Ishida | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Shigeji Yoshida | Assistant Director |