River of Fireflies

Overview

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni

Yukiyo Toake

Tamae Sawada

Takayuki Sakazume

Takio Mizushima

Takuzō Kawatani

Ken Teraizumi

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Taiji Tonoyama

Hideji Ōtaki

Tomoko Naraoka