Characters & Themes
The Firefly (2001) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2001 · 114 mins · Japanese
- Directed by
- Yasuo Furuhata
- Starring
- Hisashi Igawa, Ken Takakura, Kiichi Nakai, Isao Natsuyagi, Renji Ishibashi, Shigeo Kobayashi
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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