River of Fireflies
7.8
“The boy sees the fate of men. The girl knows how women's lives are.”
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.
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Cast
22 people
Rentaro Mikuni
Known for
Kwaidan
The Burmese Harp
Yukiyo Toake
Also in
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Carnation
Shinsaku Himeda
Teru Miyamoto
Eizō Sugawa
Kiyoshi Fujimoto
Tamae Sawada
Jun Nabeshima
Kyohei Nakaoka
Takayuki Sakazume
Takio Mizushima
Known for
Moriarty the Patriot
Iwao Akune
Takuzō Kawatani
Known for
Empire of Passion
The Street Fighter
Eizō Sugawa Director · Kyōhei Nakaoka Screenplay Teru Miyamoto Story
United States release November 4, 1988 · Produced in Japan · Production Kinema Tokyo
Production
Nichiei
Production
Kinema Tokyo
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
螢川
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · February 21, 1987
Theatrical
United States · November 4, 1988
Mexico
August 6, 1989
Russia
December 3, 1988 · Limited theatrical · 22rd Japanese Film Festival in USSR
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