Veteran director Shinji Somai spins this coming-of-age tale about a trio of boys obsessed with death. Kiyama (Naoki Sakata) is a willowy lad who once heard that the average human in a lifespan breaths six to eight million times and as result stays awake at night counting his exhalations. His bespectacled buddy Kawabe (Yasutaka Oh) — after his father died — is even more fascinated by his own mortality. When he hears from his mother that an elderly man living lonely in a decrepit old house is about to keel over, Kawabe cajoles Kiyama and their rotund friend, Yamashita (Ken’ichi Makino), to go over to the house and see if they can catch the geezer in mid-croak. The boys see the old man (Rentaro Mikuni) gazing into space, haunted by some terrible memory. When he catches them on his property, they scream and flee, only to return. Soon, they befriend the old coot and learn a bit of the dark secret that plagues him. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

The Friends 夏の庭 (1994) NTSC DVD9
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Renko, a girl in the sixth grade, is at first unperturbed by her parents’ decision to separate. With the companionship of her boyfriend, Minoru, and Sally, a classmate in the same boat, Renko gradually realises the practical implications of divorce, and tries repeatedly to get her parents to reconcile. An old man teaches her about the need to forget the past…

Director by Shinji Somai

Moving (Ohikkoshi) お引越し (1993) NTSC DVD9
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