River of Fireflies (1987)
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.
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Cast
Rentaro Mikuni
Rentaro Mikuni (三國 連太郎, Mikuni Rentarō, born January 20, 1923) was a Japanese actor from Gunma Prefecture. He appeared in over 150 films since making his screen debut in 1951, and won three Japanese A...
Yukiyo Toake
Takayuki Sakazume
as Takio Mizushima
Takayuki Sakazume (坂詰 貴之, Sakazume Takayuki, September 3, 1972) is a Japanese actor and voice actor from Chiba Prefecture. He is affiliated with Aksent. He started as a child actor, and has been a mem...
Takuzō Kawatani
Takuzo Kawatani was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 165 films between 1967 and 1995. He was most famous for playing villains..
Ken Teraizumi
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Kawarasaki Choichiro was a Japanese actor born in Musashino Town, Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Musashi High School and dropped out of Waseda University's Department of Literature.
He i...
Director
Eizō Sugawa