FEATURE FILM

Hometown

9.0/10
TMDB1 vote
Original: 106 min

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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About Hometown

Hometown (1983) is a film. Directed by . The cast includes Yoshi Katō, Hiroyuki Nagato, Fumie Kashiyama, Susumu Asai.

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Runtime
106 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
Japan
Writers
Seijiro Koyama

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What is Hometown about?

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.

Who stars in Hometown?

Yoshi Katō, Hiroyuki Nagato, Fumie Kashiyama, Susumu Asai, Gin Maeda, Kirin Kiki. See the cast cards above for character names.

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