A Town and a Tall Chimney (2019)
Japan in 1910, industrialization is unstoppable and devastating entire areas in the name of progress. In X, a farming village in Ibaraki Prefecture, the environment is so polluted that the plants in the fields die and the air, which is laden with toxic smoke, can no longer be breathed. But Saburo, the grandson of the village elder, can no longer put up with this and forms the resistance of the villagers. In Junpei, the idealistic employee of Hitachi, he finds an unexpected ally, and together they fight for a way to save the village.
Director:
Katsuya Matsumura
Writer:
Yoshinori Watanabe
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Asato Ide as Saburo Sekine |
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Dai Watanabe as Junpei Kaya |
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Riria Kojima as Chiho Kaya |
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Koji Kikkawa as Yoshinosuke Kihara |
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Tatsuya Nakadai as Hyoma Sekine |
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Shinya Owada as Professor Shimura |
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Ayako Kobayashi as Fumi |
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Hiroyuki Watanabe as Kisaragi |
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Naomasa Musaka as Yoshinosuke Omura |
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Mitsunori Isaki as Tsuneyoshi Sekine |
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Masanori Ishii as Namizo Ohira |
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Yukijiro Hotaru as Yao Sadakichi |
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Yousuke Saito as Gondo |
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Atsushi Shinohara as Saemon Hirabayashi |
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Masaaki Jonouchi as Sonsaku Hirabayashi |
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Ian Moore as Charles Olsen |
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Kensuke Owada as |
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Ryo Toyomitsu as |
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Kyooko Tooyama as |
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Sawako Agawa as Narrator (voice) |
| Directing | Katsuya Matsumura | Director |
| Production | Keiko Jonouchi | Producer |
| Writing | Yoshinori Watanabe | Screenplay |
| Production | Kazuo Kame | Producer |
| Writing | Katsuya Matsumura | Writer |
| Production | Naoya Ito | Casting |
| Art | Isao Hasegawa | Art Direction |
| Art | Sachio Tanida | Decorator |
| Lighting | Reiji Okubo | Gaffer |
| Camera | Tomohiko Tsuji | Director of Photography |
| Writing | JirĂ´ Nitta | Novel |
| Sound | Tatsuya Kishikawa | Sound |
| Editing | Akimasa Kawashima | Editor |
| Sound | Hiroyuki Onogawa | Music |
| Directing | Ryo Shimazoe | Assistant Director |