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One Summer's Day
19992h 3m
Overview
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.
Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi
Written by Fumio Ishimori, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Hisashi Yamanaka
Produced by Kyōko Ōbayashi, Yasushi Akutagawa
0Top Cast
Takuro Atsuki
Yuta Ooi
Keiju Kobayashi
Kenshiro Ooi
Kin Sugai
Yuta's grandmother
Kyūsaku Shimada
Masahiro Ooi
Miyuki Matsuda
Kaori Ooi
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Nanami Sano
Erika Ooi
Kanae Katsuno
Mikari Kobayashi
Hikari Ishida
Yumi Shina
Aoi Miyazaki
Tama Kobayashi
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Katsuya Koiso
Octopus boy
Themes & Keywords
taisho period
About One Summer's Day
One Summer's Day is a fantasy, drama film released in 1999 exploring themes of taisho period. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, it stars Takuro Atsuki, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin Sugai. Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.
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