Film

Song of the Canefields

2003 · 2h 39m · TV Movie · Drama · War

IMDb

7.4

Hirayama Koichi and his wife Michiko eloped from Osaka to Okinawa, where they lived happily with their five children. When war erupts, their eldest son is drafted into the Imperial army. As fighting spreads, the family takes refuge far from the city, but soon, child after child is drafted to serve in various branches of the military and in organizations supporting the war cause. Koichi himself is faced with a moral dilemma when he is ordered to kill a wounded American soldier.

Sanma Akashiya

Hitomi Kuroki

Kenji Sakaguchi

Yukie Nakama

Aya Ueto

Ryo Katsuji

Natsumi Ohira

Emi Ikehata

• Katsuo FukuzawaDirector
• Kazuhiko YukawaScreenplay
• Yasuo YagiProducer
• Naohiko TerashimaOriginal Music Composer

Release date

September 28, 2003

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 39m

Genres

TV Movie, Drama, War