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Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.Read moreLess
Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.
The story
Deep in the mountains of Japan a dam is scheduled to be built, thus forcing a relocation of the farmers. One of them is 78-year-old Denzo, whose son and his wife consider him senile. Left alone, he befriends a young boy, Sentaro, who has heard that the old man was once a great angler. The unlikely pair spend lots of happy time together, until Denzo has a heart attack and dies far upstream. The dam is completed and the entire area is inundated. Everyone will move away, except Denzo.
Cast & crew
Yoshi KatōDenzo
Hiroyuki NagatoDenroku
Fumie KashiyamaCast
Gin MaedaCast
Kirin KikiCast
Tokue HanazawaCast
Kōjirō KusanagiCast
Hiromitsu SuzukiCast
Ben HiuraCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Seijiro Koyama
- Producer
- Seijiro Koyama
- Producer
- Yutaka Osawa
- Producer
- Toshio Goto
- Director of Photography
- Fuminori Minami
- Screenplay
- Seijiro Koyama
- Editor
- Mitsuo Kondō
- Original Music Composer
- Masao Haryu