The Firefly

Year: 2001

Runtime: 114 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Yasuo Furuhata

Drama

Ken Takakura, the iconic Japanese star of over 100 films, leads an elegiac meditation on war and remembrance. He plays Hideji Yamaoka, a kamikaze pilot who survived Japan’s surrender and now fishes in Kumamoto, Kyushu. Reluctant to discuss his past, he shuns a nosy reporter until events force him to confront his memories and reassess his life.

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