Chirusoku no Natsu
The Stars Converge
(C) 2003 The Stars Converge Production Committee
(C) 2003 The Stars Converge Production Committee
- Release Date
- April, 17th, 2004
- Running Time
- 114 min
- Genre
- Feature
- Color
- Color
- Screening Format
- 35mm
[ Directed by ]
[ Produced by ]
[ Cast ]
- MIZUTANI Yuri ── Endo Ikuko
- UENO Juri ── Sugiyama Mari
- KATSURA Asami ── Fujimura Tomoe
- MIMURA Takayo ── Kikawa Reiko
[ Staff ]
- SASABE Kiyoshi ── Screenplay
- SAKAE Masaaki ── Cinematography
- KABASAWA Mino ── Original Music
[ Production Company ]
Premier International, Prenom H., Japan Home Video, Eisei Gekijo, MAX-A, CODE, Yamaguchi Broadcasting
[ Story ]
In 1977 in the port city of Shimonoseki, Ikuko (Mizutani Yuri) is an entrant in a track and field meet being held as a goodwill event with South Korean sister city, Pusan. There she meets and falls in love with South Korean boy, An Tei Hou (Junpei), a fellow high jump competitor. A year later, on the day of the Tanabata festival (known as "Chirusoku" in Korean), the young lovers are reunited and vow to meet again in four years time. Some twenty-six years later, Ikuko has become a high school P.E. teacher and fondly remembers her youthful love affair. The track and field event she competed in has not been held since the onset of Japan's economic recession, but is to be revived this year. Ikuko participates as a coach, while An is an anonymous sponsor. At last, they are able to fulfill their promise to meet again.
Sasabe Kiyoshi (Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS, Half a Confession) directs this nostalgic, cross-culture love story that resonates with popular songs from the late 1970s.
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