Movie
April Story
Overview
In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place.
Details
- Release date
- 1998-03-14
- Runtime
- 67 min
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Rockwell Eyes
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Takako Matsu as Uzuki Nireno
- Seiichi Tanabe as Yamazaki
- Kaori Fujii as Teruko Kitao
- Rumi as Saeko Sono
- Kazuhiko Kato as Kato
- Ken Mitsuishi as Salaryman
- Matsumoto Hakuō II as Father
- Noriko Fujima as Mother
- Matsumoto Kōshirō X as Brother
- Kio Matsumoto as Sister
- Sansei Shiomi as Shoji
- Hirokazu Umeda as Mover
Crew
- Shunji Iwai - Director
- Shunji Iwai - Writer
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