Dear Summer Sister

1h 36m
Drama
4.5

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.

Cast

Hiromi Kurita
Sunaoko Kikuchi
Hōsei Komatsu
Kôsuke Kikuchi
Lily
Momoko Kofujida
Akiko Koyama
Tsuru Ômura
Shōji Ishibashi
Tsuruo Ômura
Kei Satō
Shinkô Kuniyoshi
Taiji Tonoyama
Takuzo Sakurada
Rokkō Toura
Rintoku Teruya

Crew

Nagisa Ōshima
Director, Writer
Tsutomu Tamura
Writer
Mamoru Sasaki
Writer
Keiichi Uraoka
Editor
Yasuhiro Yoshioka
Director of Photography
Kiyoshi Ogasawara
Assistant Director
Shizuo Satô
Assistant Director
Kinshirō Kuzui
Executive Producer
Eiko Oshima
Executive Producer
Tetsuo Yasuda
Sound Designer
Akira Honma
Sound Effects Editor
Toru Takemitsu
Original Music Composer
Shigemasa Toda
Art Direction

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