Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story

Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.

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Art

Tsuyoshi Shôjima

Art Direction

Hisayuki Kobayashi

Art Direction

Crew

Kazuo Okuhara

Cinematography

Directing

Kazuhiko Ishida

First Assistant Director

Shigeji Yoshida

Assistant Director

Editing

Lighting

Makoto Tabe

Gaffer

Production

Yoshito Noda

Producer

Kenji Miyagawa

Unit Production Manager

Tetsuya Matsushima

Executive Producer

Sound

Koji Ueno

Music

Writing

Kazuo Tahara

Original Story

Naoyuki Tomomatsu

Screenplay

Art

Tsuyoshi Shôjima

Art Direction

Hisayuki Kobayashi

Art Direction

Crew

Kazuo Okuhara

Cinematography

Directing

Kazuhiko Ishida

First Assistant Director

Shigeji Yoshida

Assistant Director

Editing

Lighting

Makoto Tabe

Gaffer

Production

Yoshito Noda

Producer

Kenji Miyagawa

Unit Production Manager

Tetsuya Matsushima

Executive Producer

Sound

Koji Ueno

Music

Writing

Kazuo Tahara

Original Story

Naoyuki Tomomatsu

Screenplay