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Goodbye for Tomorrow

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A small ship named Yobuko-maru encounteres a storm off Onomichi and all the passengers go missing.
Three months later, families and lovers of the missing passengers get mysterious messages and they all gather to the Yobuko-hama beach, where they meet their loved ones again for only a short time.
Goodbye for Tomorrow describes deep bonds and sad separations with precious people.
This film is the second one of the so-called New Onomichi Trilogy, which was three films made in 1990s and set in Onomichi.

Cast：Kaori Takahashi，Tôru Minegishi，Yumi Takigawa，Hitoshi Ueki
Director：Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Script：Chiho Katsura
Producer：Kyôko Ôbayashi

Year of production: 1995
Running time: 141’
Country:Japan

The Young and Wild

staff — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:09:30 +0000

This is a film adaptation of Haruo Sato's novel, "Wanpaku Jidai (naughty days)."
An elementary student, Sotaro falls in one-sided love with a beautiful older girl, Osho-chan.
Two opposing groups of naughty boys begin a battle without weapons to decide who is the boss of the children.
This film, shot in Onomichi and Tomonoura in Hiroshima Prefecture, depicts daily lives of boys in wartime.

Cast：Isako Washio，Yasufumi Hayashi，Kôichi Satô，Tomokazu Miura
Dirctor：Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Script：Nobuo Yamada
Producer：Shirô Sasaki、Kyôko Ôbayashi

Year of production: 1986
Running time: 135’
Country:Japan

The Discarnates

staff — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:04:15 +0000

Shin'ichi Ichikawa wrote a screenplay adaptation of Taichi Yamada's novel, Strangers, which won the 1st Yamamoto Shugoro Prize in 1988. Harada is a successful scenario writer who lives a lonely life in Tokyo after divorcing his wife. One day he visits Asakusa where he was born and raised. He meets his parents who should have died when he was twelve years old.
The fantasy story of this film, it can be said a fairy tale for adults, reminds us of feeling of connecting with people from the heart.

Cast：Morio Kazama，Kumiko Akiyoshi，Tsurutarô Kataoka，Yûko Natori
Director：Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Script：Shin’ichi Ichikawa
Producer：Shigemi Sugisaki，Kiyoshi Higuchi

Year of production: 1988
Running time: 108’
Country:Japan

Seven Weeks

staff — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:01:11 +0000

Mitsuo Suzuki died at the age of 92 in Ashibetsu, Hokkaido. He ran a secondhand store there, but he used to be a doctor.
Members of the Suzuki family living separately, come back to their hometown for attending Mitsuo's funeral. A mysterious woman, Nobuko Shimizu also comes there.
The dead mixes the living, and the past mixes the present. Little by little, they get to know the secret past of Mitsuo in wartime.
This film is one of the Obayashi's War Trilogy, which includes, “Casting Blossoms to the Sky” (2011) and “Hanagatami” (2017).

Cast：Tôru Shinagawa，Takako Tokiwa、Saki Terashima，Hirona Yamazaki
Director：Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Script：Nobuhiko Ôbayashi，Tadashi Naitô
Producer：Kyôko Ôbayashi，Terumichi Yamazaki

Year of production: 2014
Running time: 171’
Country:Japan