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The Thousand Year Fire
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The Thousand Year Fire

Sep 11, 2004
1h 30m
★ 5.0

Overview

Having lost both his mother and father, an 11-year-old city boy is sent to live with his grandparents in a small seaside village. Feeling responsible for his father's accidental death, he becomes increasingly introverted and finds himself unable to make friends with the local kids. Then an eccentric elderly doctor takes him under his wing, and tells him of an ancient ceremony where a sacred flame must be brought back from a remote island by a lone swimmer.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Eiga Sennenbi Seisaku Jôei Iinkai
Jingumachi Bunka Shinko Zaidan

Cast

Shohei Murata

Satoshi Sugita

Shohei Murata

Miho Fujima

Miho Fujima

Kikuo Kaneuchi

Kikuo Kaneuchi

Chiyoka Kitasaki

Chiyoka Kitasaki

Tetsuro Tamba

Tetsuro Tamba

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