The Usuke Boys (2018)
In an age where domestic wine making had a series of failures in the difference between European climate and soil, a group of young people learned and grew from the ideals of Asai Usuke, a pioneer in Japanese wine. Okamura quits his job and plans to make wine by renting some land to raise grapes with the help of Itoh and Uemera and other college classmates. Meanwhile, Shiroyama starts cultivating wine grapes at a fruit grape farm owned by his wife's family. Taking over his family winery, Takayama overcomes his parent's objection to him raising wine grapes. Undertaking Asai's wine training, they start to make wine.
Director: Yuji Kakizaki
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Dai Watanabe as Okamura |
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Masayuki Deai as Shiroyama |
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Yuka Takeshima as Uemura |
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Kenta Uchino as Takayama |
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Satoshi Judai as Ito |
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Yumi Adachi as Miki |
| Directing | Yuji Kakizaki | Director |
| Production | Kenichi Furuya | Producer |
| Writing | Kaori Kawai | Story |
| Writing | Masaru Nakamura | Writer |
| Production | Shigeji Maeda | Producer |
| Camera | Nobuyasu Kita | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Keiichi Kobayashi | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Masako Itô | Casting Producer |
| Directing | Yamaguchi Masayuki | Assistant Director |
| Production | Shin'ya Zenda | Line Producer |
| Visual Effects | Kaori Ohtagaki | VFX Supervisor |
| Lighting | Yoshimi Watabe | Gaffer |
| Sound | 西村洋一 | Sound Effects |
| Editing | Akira Kamiya | Editor |