Hometown

Synopsis

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.

Key crew

• Seijiro KoyamaDirector, Screenplay
• Masao HaryuOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Yoshi KatōDenzo
• Hiroyuki NagatoDenroku
• Fumie Kashiyama
• Susumu Asai
• Gin Maeda
• Kirin Kiki
• Tokue Hanazawa
• Kōjirō Kusanagi
• Hiromitsu Suzuki
• Ben Hiura
• 蓑浦康子
• Shozo Hirabayashi