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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story (2015) [N/A]

Release Date:
August 1, 2015

Original Title:
ソ満国境 15歳の夏

Alternate Titles:
Soman kokkyô 15 sai no natsu

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Japan Slow Cinema Network

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 94

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Production

Art Direction:
Tsuyoshi Shôjima
Hisayuki Kobayashi

Assistant Director:
Shigeji Yoshida

Cinematography:
Kazuo Okuhara

Director:
Tetsuya Matsushima

Editor:
Kazutaka Shimizu
Seiichi Miyazawa

Executive Producer:
Tetsuya Matsushima

First Assistant Director:
Kazuhiko Ishida

Gaffer:
Makoto Tabe

Music:
Koji Ueno

Original Story:
Kazuo Tahara

Producer:
Seiichi Miyazawa
Yoshito Noda

Screenplay:
Tetsuya Matsushima
Naoyuki Tomomatsu

Unit Production Manager:
Kenji Miyagawa

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