JAPAN · 1999
One Summer's Day
Japanese New Wave
coming-of-age
intergenerational relationships
rural Japan
nostalgia
childhood summers
Synopsis
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inl
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