Japan,
1994, 113 min
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The topic of a cross-generational friendship was already covered in many films. Yet, under Shinji Sōmai’s direction, it is treated in a very original and kitsch-resisting manner. The film fascinates with its non-opulent formal freshness and unforeseen dark confrontations of old age, burdened by the past, with spontaneous and unrestrained childhood. (Summer Film School)
(more)Cast
![Rentarô Mikuni](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272791_ba5bb5.jpg)
Rentarô Mikuni
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Harakiri (1962)
Zatoichi at Large (1972)
![Akira Emoto](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/343/168343483_616e6p.jpg)
Akira Emoto
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003)
Lakeside Murder Case (2004)
![笑福亭鶴瓶](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/848/168848174_4oumup.jpg)
笑福亭鶴瓶
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Our Mother (2008)
Moving (1993)
Chikage Awashima
Japan
Best movies:
Children of Nagasaki (1983)
Early Summer (1951)
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
![Naho Toda](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/169/021/169021898_oxam91.jpg)
Naho Toda
Japan
Best movies:
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Sword of Desperation (2010)
GANTZ (2010)
![寺田農](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/924/160924254_f26499.jpg)
寺田農
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
Natsu no niwa - The Friends (1994)
Castle in the Sky (1986)