// Garden of summer (The Friends)
Shinji Sômai
// Japon // 1994
// 113 min // Couleur // 1:66
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.
IN MOVIE THEATERS JUne 4 2025
TEAM
Director : Shinji Sômai
Screenwriter : Kazumi Yumoto, Yôzô Tanaka
Cinematography : Noboru Shinoda
Sound : Hidetoshi Nonaka
Cinematography : Noboru Shinoda
Sound : Hidetoshi Nonaka
Art Direction : Kyôko Heya
Editing : Yoshiyuki Okuhara
Music : Sergio Assad
Editing : Yoshiyuki Okuhara
Music : Sergio Assad
Production designer :
Production : Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Producer : Hiroyuki Fujikado, Yoshihiro
Production : Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
Producer : Hiroyuki Fujikado, Yoshihiro
With : Rentarô Mikuni, Chikage Awashima, Akira Emoto, Naoki Sakata
Director
Born in Morioka on January 13, 1948. After studying at Chūō University (Tokyo), he joined the Nikkatsu company in 1972, where he became assistant director. He left Nikkatsu in 1976 and went freelance. Assistant director with Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Murakami Ryū and Terayama Shūji. He made his first film, The Terrible Couple, in 1980. From 1980 to 2000, he shot 13 feature films and a documentary, directed an opera, or made several short commercials. He died of lung cancer on September 9, 2001.
CONTACTS
Distribution : Survivance // Guillaume Morel // guillaume[at]survivance.net
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