One Summer's Day

One Summer's Day (1999)


  • Genre: Fantasy, Drama
  • Release Date: 1999-07-03
  • Runtime: 2h 3min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: PSC
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi

Summary

Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.

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  • Takuro Atsuki

    as Yuta Ooi
  • Keiju Kobayashi

    as Kenshiro Ooi
  • Kin Sugai

    as Yuta's grandmother
  • Kyūsaku Shimada

    as Masahiro Ooi
  • Miyuki Matsuda

    as Kaori Ooi
  • Nanami Sano

    as Erika Ooi
  • Kanae Katsuno

    as Mikari Kobayashi
  • Hikari Ishida

    as Yumi Shina
Directing Nobuhiko Obayashi Director
Writing Fumio Ishimori Writer
Production Yasushi Akutagawa Producer
Production Kyôko Ôbayashi Producer
Writing Nobuhiko Obayashi Writer
Camera Noritaka Sakamoto Director of Photography
Sound Kosuke Yamashita Original Music Composer
Sound Sotaro Manabu Original Music Composer
Writing Hisashi Yamanaka Original Story

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