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Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.


Minami Takayama

Sakiko Tamagawa
Hotaru Kagayaku is a drama, history, animation, war film released in 1991. Directed by Ryo Tachiba, it stars Minami Takayama, Sakiko Tamagawa. Chisato's journey home from Manchuria after the war. The story follows a young girl and her family as they get trapped in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War.
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