
Pastoral: To Die in the Country(1974)
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.


Asato is a young man who returns to a slummy neighbourhood (referred to as 'The Street') to be near his Mum who is in prison. He is able to transfer other people's injuries and is unable to walk past a child with a grazed knee or broken arm without helping them. Asato is protected from street thugs by Takeo, another troubled young man who has issues involving his father who is lying in a coma in hospital. The third member of their group is a young waitress, Shiho, who has her own secret.

Teppei Koike
Asato

Hiroshi Tamaki
Takeo

Chiaki Kuriyama
Shiho

Tasuku Nagaoka
Ayumi Oka

Hikari Tobita
Takaaki Kuwashiro

Yuki Saito
Kyoko Ono

Shigeru Izumiya
Kosuke Kanda

Shigeo Ôsako
Kids is a fantasy, drama film released in 2008. Directed by Tatsuya Ogishima, it stars Teppei Koike, Hiroshi Tamaki, Chiaki Kuriyama. Asato is a young man who returns to a slummy neighbourhood (referred to as 'The Street') to be near his Mum who is in prison. He is able to transfer other people's injuries and is unable to walk past a child with a grazed knee or broken arm without helping them. Asato is protected from street thugs by Takeo, another troubled young man who has issues involving his father who is lying in a coma in hospital. The third member of their group is a young waitress, Shiho, who has her own secret.
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