Mitsuki Tanimura and Kengo Kora star in “Oniichan no Hanabi”
Posted by Kevin Ouellette on October 21, 2009 5:31am EDT (3 years ago)
Filed under: Drama, Future releases, Cast updates
Here’s one that seems to have slipped through the cracks. Around mid-September, Kengo Kora and Mitsuki Tanimura were spotted in Niigata shooting a new movie called Oniichan no Hanabi (literally “brother’s fireworks”).
It’s based on a true story involving the Katakai Festival held in Ojiya, Niigata every September. Known as the largest fireworks display in the world, each individual at the festival launches their own fireworks, which can add up to about 15,000 shot off in clusters of 1,000 at a time. In the film, Tanimura plays a girl who is suffering from leukemia. Kora plays her older brother, a hikikomori (socially withdrawn shut-in) who believes that taking his sister out to launch fireworks at the festival will somehow have a restorative effect.
The story was once featured in a documentary which inspired the film.
Their parents are played by Ren Osugi and Yoshiko Miyazaki. Masahiro Kunimoto directed.
“Oniichan no Hanabi” will be released by Go! Cinema in Summer 2010.
Source: Eiga.com | Photo via Zasshokukei Danshi’s blog
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