Film

Whistling after Dark

2009 · 1h 59m

IMDb

1.7

Kuroshi Mayama, age 14, lives alone with his mother Namiko. Though he was just under the age of one when he came to this town with his mom, he remembers everything from that day: Gettings on the bus in his mom's arms, an old woman who spoke some words to him, and the encounter with a poet... One night, with Kuroshi's birthday approaching, Father shows up unexpectedly. He insists that he and Kuroshi's mother had made an arrangement – that Kuroshi was to live with his mother until his 15th birthday and then live with his father. As Kuroshi's world gets turned upside down, his family, the people around him and even himself start to change.

Yuki Izumisawa

Reiko Kataoka

Tōru Shinagawa

Tomoharu Hasegawa

Hanae Kan

• Tomoko ToyamaDirector
• Kaori SawaiScreenplay
• Masashi IgarashiProducer
• Ryoma HirataEditor

Release date

October 15, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 59m