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Film International: There Was a War When I Was a Child

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Starring Fumle Kashiyama, Yuichi Saito
The first in a short season of films about childhood, this award-winning Japanese film presents a new and unusual picture of the Second World War.
During the last months of the war Taro and his mother are evacuated from Tokyo to her family in a village in northern Japan. Taro enjoys his new life but at night he has nightmares - grandmother has told him there is a demon in the barn. The day he discovers the secret of the 'demon', young Taro begins to question everything he has been taught.
Screenplay by NAOYUKI Suzuki Directed by SADARO SAITO
A Japanese film with English subtitles
(First showing on British television) Films: page 11

Contributors

Unknown:
Fumle Kashiyama
Unknown:
Yulchl Saito
Play By:
Naoyuki Suzuki
Directed By:
Sadaro Saito
Kazue Hasuike:
Fumie Kashiyama
Taro:
Yuichi Saito
Tsugie Nomoto:
Meiko Kaji
Emi:
Catherine
Miyo Nomoto:
Aiko Mimasu
Masae Nomoto:
Hitomi Nakahara
Source: Radio Times

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