Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.
Cast
Crew
Kazuo Kuroki
Director, Writer
Masataka Matsuda
Writer
Hirohide Abe
Editor
Masaki Tamura
Director of Photography
Masahiro Hara
Assistant Director
Tetsuya Nakamura
Production Supervisor
Takenori Sentô
Producer
Tamotsu Kanamori
Line Producer
Toshihiro Isomi
Production Design
Mari Miyamoto
Costumer
Yukio Hokari
Sound Effects
Yukio Kubota
Sound Recordist, Sound
Tomoo Haraguchi
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Teizō Matsumura
Original Music Composer
Fumiaki Suzaka
Decorator
Yuzuru Satō
Gaffer
Akira Morii
Production Manager
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