Moonlight Serenade

Moonlight Serenade was released on 15 March 1997.

Moonlight Serenade was directed by Masahiro Shinoda.

Moonlight Serenade has a runtime of 1h 57m.

Moonlight Serenade was produced by Masaru Koibuchi, Taketo Niitsu.

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.

The key characters in Moonlight Serenade are Kōkichi Onda / Elder Keita Onda (Kyōzō Nagatsuka), Keita Onda as a child (Hideyuki Kasahara), Kōji Onda (Jun Toba).

Moonlight Serenade is a Drama film.

Moonlight Serenade has an audience rating of 6.6 out of 10.