One Summer's Day (1999)
2h 3m
Running Time
July 3, 1999Release Date
Plot.
Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.
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Cast & Crew.

Takuro Atsuki
Yuta Ooi

Keiju Kobayashi
Kenshiro Ooi

Kin Sugai
Yuta's grandmother

Kyūsaku Shimada
Masahiro Ooi

Miyuki Matsuda
Kaori Ooi

Nanami Sano
Erika Ooi

Kanae Katsuno
Mikari Kobayashi

Hikari Ishida
Yumi Shina

Aoi Miyazaki
Tama Kobayashi

Katsuya Koiso
Octopus boy

Shinya Yamamoto
Harunosuke (azuki shop owner)

Wakaba Irie
Mikari's mother

Koichi Ueda
Shrine priest

Hisashi Nakayama
Writer

Yasufumi Hayashi
Teacher with mole

Ryo Amamiya
Videographer at funeral
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