The Friends
Things that pass, and things that can't be lost… One summer adventure story of three boys.
113 mins
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
Naoki Sakata
Jun Kiyama
Yasutaka Oh
Kawabe
Ken'ichi Makino
Takeshi Yamashita
Shigeru Yazaki
Katsuhiro
Ritsuko Nemoto
Tomomi Kiyama
Kyōko Heya
Art Direction
Katsuhiro Ogawa
Unit Production Manager
Hidetoshi Nonaka
Sound
Hideo Kumagai
Gaffer
Nariyuki Ueda
Gaffer
Yoshiyuki Okuhara
Editor
Kumiko Ogawa
Costume Supervisor
Kazumi Yumoto
Novel
Hiroyuki Fujikado
Producer
Kei Ijichi
Executive Producer
Etsuhiro Katô
Producer
Masahiro Yasuda
Executive Producer
Sergio Assad
Music
Noboru Shinoda
Director of Photography
Jun Fukumoto
Camera Operator