River of Fireflies

River of Fireflies (1987)

螢川

The boy sees the fate of men. The girl knows how women's lives are.

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.

Date of release
1987-02-21
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Drama
Director
Eizō Sugawa

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Hotarugawa

River of Fireflies is a 1987 Japanese coming of age drama film directed by Eizō Sugawa. It was adapted by Sugawa and Kyohei Nakaoka from the Akutagawa Prize-winning novel of the same name by Teru Miyamoto. The film stars Takayuki Sakazume as Takio Mizushima, a boy experiencing sexual awakening, personal growth and death in a financially struggling family. It co-stars Rentarō Mikuni, Yukiyo Toake, Tamae Sawada and Takuzo Kawatani. Kōichi Kawakita served as special effects director for the film's climactic sequence. River of Fireflies was theatrically released by Shochiku on February 21, 1987, in Japan.

Production

Kōichi Kawakita served as special effects director for the "swarm of fireflies" sequence. The techniques he developed to create the swarm were also used for Godzilla vs. Biollante.

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