Film

Little DJ

2007 · 2h 8m

IMDb

7.2

Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...

Ryunosuke Kamiki

Taro Takano

Mayuko Fukuda

Tamaki

Hirosue Ryoko

Tamaki - Adult

Shigeyuki Totsugi

Taro Takasaki

Eri Murakawa

Kanae

Yutaka Matsushige

Suteji

Ken Mitsuishi

Yuki

Kento Kaku

Shuhei Yuki

Katsuya Kobayashi

Makoto Ozaki

Naomi Nishida

Hiroko Takano

Ken Ishiguro

Masahiko Takano

Yoshio Harada

Yuji Takasaki

• Koto NagataScreenplay · Director
• Uiko MiuraScreenplay
• Tadashi OnitsukaWriter
• Nobuhiro ChibaProducer
• Jun FukumotoDirector of Photography
• Naoki SatoOriginal Music Composer
• Tsuyoshi ImaiEditor

Release date

December 15, 2007

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 8m

Rated

NR