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Kitakami Nocturne
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
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Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
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Genre:Romance, Drama
Written By:Gan Yamazaki, Ryuma Takemori
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Runtime:62 minutes
Studio:Nikkatsu Corporation
Cast
Yoshitsugu Nakajima
Director
Tamio Kawachi
Keisuke Shirato
Chieko Matsubara
Shizuko Suda
Yuji Odaka
Ryoichi Yamada
Hiroshi Kondō
Yoshiko Nezu
Akiko's friend A
Yuko Minakaze
Akiko Yokota
Keiko Akashi
Akiko's friend C
Shosei Muto
Tadahiko Sugimoto
Fudeko Tanaka
Keisuke's mother
Hiroshi Chō
Newspaper reporter
Kosuke Hisamatsu
Keisuke's father
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