River of Fireflies

N/A

1987

Drama

1 hour 55 minutes

Summary

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.

~ The boy sees the fate of men. The girl knows how women's lives are.
Eizō Sugawa

Director

Kyōhei Nakaoka

Screenplay

Original Name螢川 (River of Fireflies)

StatusReleased: 38 years ago
February 21, 1987

Language日本語

Spoken Languages日本語

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