Dear Summer Sister
MovieTitle | 夏の妹 |
User score | 4.3 |
Release date | Aug 5, 1972 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Nagisa Ōshima |
Production country | Japan |
Production companies | Art Theatre Guild, Sozosha |
Run time | 96 min. |
14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly delving into the underlying scars of the island’s wartime history.