Japan,
1994, 113 min
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The topic of a cross-generational friendship was already covered in many films. Yet, under Shinji Sōmai’s direction, it is treated in a very original and kitsch-resisting manner. The film fascinates with its non-opulent formal freshness and unforeseen dark confrontations of old age, burdened by the past, with spontaneous and unrestrained childhood. (Summer Film School)
(more)Cast
Rentarô Mikuni
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Harakiri (1962)
Zatoichi at Large (1972)
Akira Emoto
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)
Lakeside Murder Case (2004)
笑福亭鶴瓶
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Our Mother (2008)
Moving (1993)
Chikage Awashima
Japan
Best movies:
Children of Nagasaki (1983)
Early Summer (1951)
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Naho Toda
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Sword of Desperation (2010)
GANTZ (2010)
寺田農
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Castle in the Sky (1986)