River of Fireflies
The boy sees the fate of men. The girl knows how women's lives are.
115 mins
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.
Matsuo Takahashi
Executive Producer
Hiroaki Kato
Executive Producer
Kiyoshi Fujimoto
Producer
Kyōhei Nakaoka
Screenplay
Shinsaku Himeda
Director of Photography
Masatsugu Shinozaki
Original Music Composer
Iwao Akune
Art Direction
Tadaaki Shimada
Lighting Technician
Jun Nabeshima
Editor
Fujio Satou
Sound Recordist