Hometown
Directed by Seijiro KoyamaSeptember 15, 1983 1h 46mDrama
7.6
Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.
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Hometown was released on September 15, 1983.
Hometown was directed by Seijiro Koyama.
Hometown has a runtime of 1h 46m.
Hometown was produced by Seijiro Koyama, Yutaka Osawa, Toshio Goto.
Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.
The key characters in Hometown are Denzo (Yoshi Katō), Denroku (Hiroyuki Nagato), Fumie Kashiyama.
Hometown is a Drama film.
Hometown has an audience rating of 7.6 out of 10.