Hometown (1983)
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
Denzo
Hiroyuki Nagato
Denroku
Fumie Kashiyama
Gin Maeda
Kirin Kiki
Tokue Hanazawa
Kōjirō Kusanagi
Hiromitsu Suzuki
Ben Hiura
Nana Okada
Saburo Shinoda
Etsuko Ichihara
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