Takeshi: Childhood Days (1990)
Overview
A city boy, Shinji, is sent to live in the countryside to escape the Tokyo bombings, where he experiences the complexities of rural school life, including a power struggle with the local class leader, Takeshi.
Cast
Kazuyo Mita
Kazama Shige (Aunt of Shinji)
Shima Iwashita
Shizue Kazama (Shinji's mother)
Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Shusaku Kazama (Shinji's father)
Mitsue Suzuki
Kazama Masa (Shinji's grandmother)
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Tatsuo Kazama (Uncle of Shinji)
Saburo Date
Takeno Grandfather
Nobutaka Masutomi
Father of Noh
Moeko Ezawa
Futoshi's mother
Nobuko Sendo
Akiko (Futoshi's older sister)
Shinsuke Ashida
Hideji Ōtaki
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