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Lantern Festival of the Waves (TV)

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Original title

Nami no bonaka

AKA

Lantern Festival of the Waves

Year

1983

Running time

112 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Akio Jissoji

Screenwriter

So Kuramoto

Cast

Music

Tôru Takemitsu

Cinematography

Masao Nakabori

Producer

Nippon TV, TV Man Union

Genre

Drama | Family Relationships. TV Movie

Synopsis

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.

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Lantern Festival of the Waves (TV)

1983

Akio Jissoji