Village of Dreams (1996)

6.0/10 112 min Family Drama

Overview

Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.

Cast

Mieko Harada

Mizue Tashima

Kyōzō Nagatsuka

Kenzo Tashima

Kaneko Iwasaki

Toshie

Hōsei Komatsu

Grandfather

Tokuko Sugiyama

Grandmother

Koichi Ueda

Iwata

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