Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

2015
1h 34m
5.0

5.0/10

2 votes • View on IMDb
Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: JA

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Production Information

Production Companies
Japan Slow Cinema Network
Production Countries
Japan
Spoken Languages
Japanese

Quick Facts

Original Title ソ満国境 15歳の夏
Release Date August 1, 2015
Status Released
Language JA
IMDb ID tt4711486

Cast

Ryûichirô Shibata
Ryûichirô Shibata

Miho Kanazawa
Miho Kanazawa

Noboru Kaneko
Noboru Kaneko

Yoshiko Kayama
Yoshiko Kayama

Katsuya Kobayashi
Katsuya Kobayashi

Anne Kojima
Anne Kojima

Kazunori Mimura
Kazunori Mimura

Yûto Muguruma
Yûto Muguruma

Hiroshi Nagamoto
Hiroshi Nagamoto

Isao Natsuyagi
Isao Natsuyagi

Satoshi Nikaido
Satoshi Nikaido

Eiko Ohtani
Eiko Ohtani

Key Crew

Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Screenplay
Tetsuya Matsushima
Screenplay
Yoshito Noda
Producer
Seiichi Miyazawa
Producer
Tetsuya Matsushima
Director
Tetsuya Matsushima
Executive Producer