Pastoral: To Die in the Country

Dec 28, 1974

1h 41m

★ 7.4

Overview

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

Genres

Fantasy

Drama

Production Companies

Art Theatre Guild

Jinriki Hikoki Sha

Pastoral: To Die in the Country Trailers

Cast

Shuji

Kantarō Suga

Young Shuji

Hiroyuki Takano

Shuji's Mother

Chigusa Takayama

Married woman

Kaoru Yachigusa

Pregnant

Keiko Niitaka

Air woman

Masumi Harukawa

Phantom of old woman

Izumi Hara

Arashi

Yoshio Harada

Longsocks

Masahiro Saito

Tengu Kurama

J.A. Seazer

Film Critic

Isao Kimura

Poet

Kiyoshi Awazu

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