Hometown
1h 46m

Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.
Cast

Yoshi Katō
Denzo

Hiroyuki Nagato
Denroku

Fumie Kashiyama
Unknown
Susumu Asai
Unknown

Gin Maeda
Unknown

Kirin Kiki
Unknown

Tokue Hanazawa
Unknown

Kōjirō Kusanagi
Unknown

Hiromitsu Suzuki
Unknown

Ben Hiura
Unknown
蓑浦康子
Unknown
Shozo Hirabayashi
Unknown
戸谷友
Unknown
赤松和義
Unknown

Nana Okada
Unknown

Saburo Shinoda
Unknown
青木茂
Unknown
Tetsuo Hasegawa
Unknown

Etsuko Ichihara
Narrator (voice)
Crew

Seijiro Koyama
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Kōsuke Hirakata
Co-Writer, Original Story
Hiroshi Kobayashi
Co-Writer
Mitsuo Kondō
Editor
Yukio Watanabe
Assistant Editor
Fuminori Minami
Director of Photography
Kaizo Kamiyama
Assistant Director
Yutaka Osawa
Producer
Toshio Goto
Producer
桃沢裕幸
Associate Producer
境厚子
Makeup & Hair
Shinpei Kikuchi
Sound Recordist
Masao Haryu
Original Music Composer
松下照夫
Set Decoration
金神徹三
Still Photographer
宇田和義
Still Photographer
島家春
Still Photographer
Motoo Maeda
Electrician
松田藤吉
Electrician
井上卓之
Electrician
Ken'ichi Okamoto
Gaffer
細谷修身
Production Manager
Fumio Ogawa
Art Direction
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