Film

Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru

2015 · 3h 25m

In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan is to house the slum dwellers in cultural housing, complete with gas and running water. Kenji, a construction worker, and Yumiko, a waitress at a late-night rest house, meet in the slum, but only at dusk. One day, a Korean worker falls from scaffolding at an apartment building site and dies. The site supervisor and city hall workers bury the corpse in the concrete foundations of the apartment building...

Kazuya Kamenashi

Mitsuki Takahata

Naomasa Musaka

Marcia

Makiko Watanabe

Hatsuo Yamaya

Masakatsu Toriyama

Tsumami Edamame

• Yukio NinagawaDirector
• Masataka MatsutōyaOriginal Music Composer

Release date

August 10, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

3h 25m