Fireflies: River of Light (2004)
ほたるの星
Wouldn't it be beautiful to see fireflies dancing here?
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through to his students, until he creates a class project to raise fireflies to fly over it once again. All students, even the reserved girl Hikari (Risako Sugaya), become passionately involved in the project. However, it brings them into conflict with parents and the school, one problem after another stands in his way.
- Date of release
- 2004-06-05
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Hiroshi Sugawara
Casting
- Yukiyoshi Ozawa — Hajime Miwa
- Risako Sugaya — Hikari Hoshi
- Koji Yakusho — Mr. Takiguchi
- Mirai Yamamoto — Ms. Nanami
- Nobuo Yana — Tanaka-san
- Kirin Kiki — Headmistress
- Yurina Kumai
- Moeko Ezawa
- Toshiyuki Kitami
- Yukimi Koyanagi
- Hitomi Nakahara
- Takashi Sasano
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