Hometown (1983)

9.0/10 • 106 min •

Overview

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

Hiroyuki Nagato

Fumie Kashiyama

Gin Maeda

Kirin Kiki

Tokue Hanazawa

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Hiromitsu Suzuki

Ben Hiura

Nana Okada

Saburo Shinoda

Etsuko Ichihara

Narrator (voice)

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