Hometown

Hometown — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 15, 1983
• Runtime
• 106 min
• Director
• Seijiro Koyama

Hometown — Cast

Yoshi Katō Denzo Hiroyuki Nagato Denroku Fumie Kashiyama

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Susumu Asai Gin Maeda Kirin Kiki Tokue Hanazawa Kōjirō Kusanagi