Shonen jidai (1990)

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119 min - Drama - 12 January 1990 (USA)

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Cast

Cast overview:
	Tetsuya Fujita	...	Shinji Kazama
	Yuji Horioka	...	Takeshi Ohara
	Katsuhisa Yamazaki	...	Futoshi Tanabe
	Noritake Kobinata	...	Kensuke Sudo
	Atsuko Koyama	...	Minako Saiki
	Shima Iwashita	...	Shizue Kazama
	Toshiyuki Hosokawa	...	Shusaku Kazama
	Chôichirô Kawarazaki	...	Tatsuo Kazama
	Kazuyo Mita	...	Shige Kazama
	Nobuko Sendô	...	Akiko Tanabe
	Mitsue Suzuki	...	Maki Kazama
	Shinsuke Ashida	...	Principal
	Hideji Ôtaki	...	Stationmaster
	Kyosen Ôhashi	...	Photographer

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Bombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures. Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo) and his new schoolmates (who are villagers) don't exactly know what is going on in the war. They see the B-29 bombers and the glow of cities on fire, but the problems of being separated from one's mother and surviving among one's peers loom larger than international politics. Written by L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>

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