Drama · Japan · 1994 · 1h 53m

The Friends

夏の庭 The Friends

Director

Cast

Rentaro Mikuni as Kihachi Denpo Naoki Sakata as Jun Kiyama Yasutaka Oh as Kawabe Ken'ichi Makino as Takeshi Yamashita Akira Emoto as Nagatomo Tsurube Shofukutei as Undertaker

Crew

Noboru Shinoda — Director of Photography Yoshiyuki Okuhara — Editor Izumi Sakai — Original Music Composer Yōzō Tanaka — Screenplay Kazumi Yumoto — Novel Hiroyuki Fujikado — Producer

Tagline

Things that pass, and things that can't be lost… One summer adventure story of three boys.

Synopsis

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.

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