Childhood Days

Childhood Days (少年時代, Shōnen jidai ) is a Japanese film carried out by Masahiro Shinoda, left in 1990.

Synopsis

Being held during the summer 1944, the film is delayed on Shinji, young person a 10 year old living Tōkyō, evacuated ruins to the rural prefecture of Toyama. Compared to espadrille and worn clothing of the local inhabitants, the pimpant uniform of school of Shinji seems at the same time splendid and strange. The “caïd” of the school of the corner is called Takeshi, the son of a fisherman who speaks little but which acts when it is needed. Shinji is put soon to attend the young people of the corner, but a certain tension is created rather quickly between the two boys. When Shinji drops one day the group to meet a girl coming from Ōsaka to see it, it is then forced by Takeshi to sing in front of them like penitence. But little by little the authority of Takeshi on the group decreases…

Data sheet

Title: Childhood Days
original Title: 少年時代 ( Shōnen jidai )
Realization: Masahiro Shinoda
Scenario: Taichi Yamada, according to the novel The Long Road , of Hyozo Kashiwabara
Production: Fujio Fujiko
Music: Shin' ichirō Ikebe and Yōsui Inoue
Photography: Tatsuo Suzuki
Assembly: Chizuko Osada
Country of origin: Japan
Format: Colors - 1,85:1 - Stereo - 35 mm
Kind: Drama
Lasted: 119 minutes
Comings out date: January 12th 1990 (the United States), August 11th 1990 (Japan)

Distribution

Tetsuya Fujita : Shinji Kazama
Yuji Horioka : Takeshi Ohara
Katsuhisa Yamazaki : Futoshi Tanabe
Noritake Kobinata : Kensuke Sudo
Atsuko Koyama : Minako Saiki
Shima Iwashita : Shizue Kazama
Toshiyuki Hosokawa : Shusaku Kazama
Choichiro Kawarazaki : Tatsuo Kazama
Kazuyo Mita : Shige Kazama
Nobuko Sendo : Akiko Tanabe
Mitsue Suzuki : Maki Kazama
Shinsuke Ashida : The main thing
Hideji Otaki: The chief of station
Kyosen Ohashi: The photographer

Rewards

Nominations for the price of best photography (Tatsuo Suzuki), better assembly (Chizuko Nagata) and better lighting (Ken' ichi Mizuno), at the time of the Awards off the Japanese Academy 1991.
Price of the best realizer, better film, better music and better scenario, at the time of the Awards off the Japanese Academy 1991.
Price of the best realizer and better film, at the time of the Blue Ribbon Awards 1991.
Price of best film, at the time of the Kinema Junpo Awards 1991.
Price of best film, better music, better scenario and better sound effects (Hideo Nishizaki), at the time of the Mainichi Film Contest 1991.

External bond

Childhood Days on Internet Movie Database

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