A Boy's Summer in 1945

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.

• Kazuo KurokiDirector
• Kazuo KurokiWriter
• Masataka MatsudaWriter
• Teizō MatsumuraOriginal Music Composer

• Tasuku EmotoCast
• Yoshio HaradaCast
• Tokie HidariCast
• Wakaba IrieCast
• Eri IshidaCast
• Teruyuki KagawaCast
• Masahiro KomotoCast
• Riho MakiseCast
• Junko MiyashitaCast
• Hiroko NakajimaCast
• Erika OdaCast
• Susumu TerajimaCast