Little DJ
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Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...
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Cast
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Ryunosuke Kamiki
Taro Takano
Known for
Your Name.
Godzilla Minus One
Mayuko Fukuda
Tamaki
Known for
Death Note: L Change the WorLd
Mai Mai Miracle
Yuiko Miura
Koto Nagata
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Ryoko Hirosue
Tamaki - Adult
Known for
Wasabi
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Shigeyuki Totsugi
Taro Takasaki
Known for
Erased
1 Litre of Tears
Tadashi Onitsuka
Eri Murakawa
Kanae
Known for
Kingdom III: The Flame of Destiny
Yutaka Matsushige
Suteji
Known for
Death Note
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Ken Mitsuishi
Yuki
Known for
THE DAYS
Audition
Kento Kaku
Shuhei Yuki
Known for
Alice in Borderland
House of Ninjas
Katsuya Kobayashi
Makoto Ozaki
Known for
Kamen Rider
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Koto Nagata Director · Uiko Miura Screenplay Tadashi Onitsuka Writer
Worldwide gross $7.6K · First release December 15, 2007 · Produced in Japan
Box office
Worldwide gross
$7,641
Production
Amuse Soft Entertainment
Production
AMUSE
Production
TV Tokyo
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SKY Perfect Well Think
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DesperaDo
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IMAGICA
Production
Poplar
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atmovie
Production
Japan
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Original title
Little DJ 小さな恋の物語
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · December 15, 2007
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No release date listed for United States.
South Korea
March 11, 2010
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