Dec 28, 1974
101 min
Full-HD

Pastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)

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.

Category

Fantasy Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Art Theatre Guild Jinriki Hikoki Sha

Kantarō Suga

Shuji

Hiroyuki Takano

Young Shuji

Chigusa Takayama

Shuji's Mother

Kaoru Yachigusa

Married woman

Keiko Niitaka

Pregnant

Masumi Harukawa

Air woman

Izumi Hara

Sen Hara (Phantom of old woman)

Yoshio Harada

Arashi

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