Star Sand (2017)
STAR SAND — 星砂物語 —
In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi, living together in a cave on a small island in Okinawa. The two men are deserters from their armies; yet both vow never to harm another human being again. Hiromi looks after the deserters until another soldier appears and the peace of the cave is shattered. It leads to the death of three of them and a fascinating mystery that isn't solved until the present day.
- Date of release
- 2017-08-04
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Roger Pulvers
Casting
- Lisa Oda — Hiromi Umeno
- Riho Yoshioka — Shiho Hosaka
- Shinnosuke Mitsushima — Takayasu Iwabuchi
- Brandon McClelland — Bob
- Takahiro Miura — Iwabuchi
- Shinobu Terajima — Gima
- Makiko Watanabe — Yoshigami
- Renji Ishibashi — Professor Shiroma
- Mako Midori — Hiromi (elderly)
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