Little DJ (Little DJ 小さな恋の物語) 16 years old

Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...

Credits

Little DJ Cast

Name Character
Ryunosuke Kamiki He was 14, now 31 years old as Taro Takano
Ryōko Hirosue She was 27, now 44 years old as Tamaki - Adult
Mayuko Fukuda She was 13, now 30 years old as Tamaki
Eri Murakawa She was 20, now 37 years old as Kanae

Little DJ Crew

Name Department
Yuiko Miura as Screenplay. Writing
Tadashi Onitsuka as Writer. He was 42 (now 59) years old Writing
Koto Nagata as Director. She was 36 (now 53) years old Directing
Koto Nagata as Screenplay. She was 36 (now 53) years old Writing
Little DJ poster
Little DJ (16 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, December 15, 2007
  • Runtime: 100 minutes