They Say Nothing Stays the Same

Sep 13, 2019

2h 17m

★ 6.8

Overview

Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely communicates with anyone except Genzo, a young neighbour. Upstream, a large bridge is being constructed. Everyone is excited, but Toichi has mixed feelings about it. One day, Toichi meets a mysterious girl. Having no family and no place to go, Toichi lets her stay with him, but this encounter starts to bring about changes to Toichi's life.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Kinoshita Group

They Say Nothing Stays the Same Trailers

Cast

Toichi

Akira Emoto

A Girl

Ririka Kawashima

Genzo

Nijiro Murakami

The Man from the Construction Site

Tsuyoshi Ihara

Regular customer

Tadanobu Asano

Merchant

Jun Murakami

Geisha

Yu Aoi

Ushi's customer

Takashi Sasano

Woman on the Boat

Mitsuko Kusabue

Nihei's Father

Haruomi Hosono

Nihei

Masatoshi Nagase

Doctor

Isaao Hashizume

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