Climbing to Spring (2014)
春を背負って
An alpine story of family, determination and destiny.
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their mountain hut for the summer season of climbers. When Toru grows up, he leaves his hometown and enters the working world as a stock trader. One day, Toru receives word that his father has passed away. He returns to Mount Tate once again, and becomes conscious of a new calling. But, does Toru have what it takes to follow in his father’s footsteps?
- Date of release
- 2014-06-14
- TMDB
- 8.4 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Daisaku Kimura
Casting
- Kenichi Matsuyama — Toru
- Yu Aoi — Ai Takazawa
- Sosuke Ikematsu — Koichi Sunaga
- Sakura Ando — Yuri Nakagawa
- Renji Ishibashi — Hisao Nozawa
- Isao Natsuyagi
- Kaoru Kobayashi — Isao Nagamine
- Etsushi Toyokawa — Goro Tada
- Hirofumi Arai — Satoshi Nakagawa
- Hisashi Igawa — Bunji
- Toru Nakamura — Takashi Asakura
- Eisaku Yoshida
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