Summer of Chirusoku

Chirusoku no natsu, feature film, 2003

DIRECTED BY: Kiyoshi Sasabe

Summer of Chirusoku

CAST:
Yuri Mizutani (Ikuko Endo),
Juri Ueno (Mari Sugiyama),
Asami Katsura (Tomoe Fujimura),
Yasuyo Mimura (Reiko Kigawa),
Junpei Suzuki

SCRIPT:
Kiyoshi Sasabe

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Masaaki Sakae

Synopsis:
The story takes place in July 1977 during a high school athletic competition between two towns, Japanese Shimonoseki and North Korean Pusan. Two teenagers, Ikuko Endo from Japan and An Daiho from North Korea, fall in love and promise to meet each other in a year at the next competition. Apart from physical distance, during that year they will have to overcome political tensions and social prejudices.

35 mm, color, 114 min