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Based on Kazuo Dans 1937 novella, Director Nobuhiko Obayashi, whose surreal phenomenon House (Hausu) became an international cult classic, achieves his filmmaking dream of forty years with his new feature Hanagatami. In the spring of 1941, sixteen-year-old Toshihiko leaves Amsterdam to attend school in Karatsu, a small town on the western coast of Japan, where his aunt Keiko cares for his ailing cousin Mina. Immersed in the seasides nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the towns other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the wars inescapable gravitational pull. With his memories as a survivor of World War II echoing in the uncertainty of world events unfolding today, director Obayashi returns us to 1941, a pivotal time for Japan, as the unstoppable momentum of war forcibly seized the lives of youth away to battlefields where they disappeared forever. In dazzling, full-bloom Obayashi style, Hanagatami captures the passion, innocence, and struggle of the end days of youth in a country consumed by the flames of war.
Shunsuke Kubozuka
Toshihiko Sakakiyama
Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Ukai
Keishi Nagatsuka
Kira
Tokio Emoto
Aso
Honoka Miki
Mina Ema
Hirona Yamazaki
Akine
Mugi Kadowaki
Chitose
Takako Tokiwa
Keiko Ema
Takehiro Murata
Professor Yamauchi
Tetsuya Takeda
Dr. Ichijo
Wakaba Irie
Old Maid
Kiyotaka Nanbara
Toshihiko's Father
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Toshihiko's Mother
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Professor Yamauchi's Mother
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