Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
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Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.
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Ryûichirô Shibata
Miho Kanazawa
Known for
Ju-on: The Beginning of the End
Suspect X
Kazuo Tahara
Tetsuya Matsushima
Kazuo Okuhara
Noboru Kaneko
Known for
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
Kenji Miyagawa
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Seiichi Miyazawa
Yoshiko Kayama
Known for
Three Outlaw Samurai
Naoyuki Tomomatsu
Kazuhiko Ishida
Yoshito Noda
Tetsuya Matsushima Director · Naoyuki Tomomatsu Screenplay Kazuo Tahara Story
First release August 1, 2015 · Produced in Japan · Original title ソ満国境 15歳の夏
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Japan Slow Cinema Network
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Japan
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Original title
ソ満国境 15歳の夏
Original language
Japanese
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Japanese
Release dates
Japan · August 1, 2015
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