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.
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Yoshi Katō
Denzo
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Hachiko
Hiroyuki Nagato
Denroku
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Fumie Kashiyama
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Susumu Asai
Gin Maeda
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Kirin Kiki
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Tokue Hanazawa
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Kōjirō Kusanagi
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Hiromitsu Suzuki
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Ben Hiura
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Shozo Hirabayashi
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Seijiro Koyama Director · Kōsuke Hirakata Story Masao Haryu Composer
First release September 15, 1983 · Produced in Japan · Original title ふるさと
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Japan
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Original title
ふるさと
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · September 15, 1983
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