Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story (ソ満国境 15歳の夏) 9 years old

Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.

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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story Cast

Name Character
Katsuya Kobayashi He was 33, now 42 years old
Miho Kanazawa She was 20, now 30 years old
Isao Natsuyagi He was 75, 73 years old when he died
Yoshiko Kayama She was 71, now 80 years old
Satoshi Nikaido He was 49, now 58 years old
Min Tanaka He was 70, now 79 years old
Noboru Kaneko He was 40, now 50 years old

Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story Crew

Name Department
Naoyuki Tomomatsu as Screenplay. He was 48 (now 57) years old Writing
Kazuo Okuhara as Cinematography. Crew
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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story (9 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, August 01, 2015
  • Runtime: 94 minutes