Film

Hometown

1983 · 1h 46m

IMDb

7.5

Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.

Yoshi Katō

Denzo

Hiroyuki Nagato

Denroku

Fumie Kashiyama

Susumu Asai

Gin Maeda

Kirin Kiki

Tokue Hanazawa

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Hiromitsu Suzuki

Ben Hiura

蓑浦康子

Shozo Hirabayashi

戸谷友

赤松和義

Nana Okada

Saburo Shinoda

• Seijiro KoyamaDirector · Producer · Screenplay
• Yutaka OsawaProducer
• Toshio GotoProducer
• Fuminori MinamiDirector of Photography
• Masao HaryuOriginal Music Composer
• Mitsuo KondōEditor

Release date

September 15, 1983

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 46m