Season of the Sun (1956)

Original title

太陽の季節

Directed by

Takumi Furukawa

Genre

drama

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A rebellious youth navigates love and class tensions in postwar Japan. The story centers on a young man's affair with a woman from a different social background.

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What happens

Season of the Sun (太陽の季節, Taiyō no kisetsu) is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Takumi Furukawa. This film is a 1956 feature film adaptation of Shintarō Ishihara's novel Season of the Sun. It was also noteworthy because it marked the cinema debut, in a supporting role, of Yujiro Ishihara (brother of the author of the novel), who went on to become one of Japan's most successful film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s (and who remains a cultural icon following his untimely death in 1987). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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