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Moonlight Serenade

Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
1997    1h 57m
6.7
Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother, killed in the just-ended WWII. The lad spends much of the trip trying to talk his elder brother out of running away. They encounter an array of characters on the journey. Most prominent among them a black marketeer who, like the elder brother, feels that the "new ways" can only benefit him, and work against the boys' father, who is strict and traditional.
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Cast of Moonlight Serenade
  • Kyōzō NagatsukaKōkichi Onda / Elder Keita Onda
  • Hideyuki KasaharaKeita Onda as a child
  • Jun TobaKōji Onda
  • Shima IwashitaFuji Onda
  • Hinano YoshikawaYukiko Mizukami
  • Michiko HadaMs. Komachi
  • Junji TakadaMr. Black Marketeer
  • Toshiya NagasawaMr. Demobilized
  • Sayuri KawauchiHideko Onda
  • Shōhei HinoBenshi
  • Chōichirō KawarasakiHeadmaster
  • Akaji MaroCircus performer
  • Frankie SakaiPhotographer
  • Masahiko NishimuraAssistant photographer
  • Takashi Tsumura
  • Kimiko Yo
  • Naoto Takenaka

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