The Youth of Kamiya Etsuko

Kamiya Etsuko no seishun, feature film, 2006.

DIRECTED BY: Kazuo Kuroki

The Youth of Kamiya Etsuko

CAST:
Tomoyo Harada (Etsuko Kamiya),
Masatoshi Nagase (poručnik Nagayo Nagamasa),
Shunsuke Masaoka (poručnik Akashi),
Kaoru Kobayashi (Yasutada,
Etsukin brat),
Manami Honjo (Fusa,
Yasutadina supruga)

SCRIPT:
Kazuo Kuroki,
Hideki Yamada (prema drami Masatake Matsude)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Koichi Kawakami

Synopsis:
An old couple sits on the hospital’s roof and reminisces about a cherry tree that grew in front of Etskuo’s home in Komentsu. Slowly, the couple come around to discussing WW II and the circumstances that led to their meeting. Etsuko lived with her brother and his wife after their parents died. She was in love with lieutenant Akashi, her brother’s younger friend. However, one day Akashi proposes that Etsuko should marry his friend Nagayo.

color, 35mm, 111 min