
The Summer I was Four
1991, Japanese. Directed by Kohei Ando.
A cinematic rendition of Shuji Terayama’s poem, The Summer I Turned Four. Coastal images, thresholds, waves, expanses, are folded in to those of a statue of a young boy, who looks impassively onto the wide vista, frozen in time.
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- 0h 2m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 1 January 1991
- Original title
- 四歳の夏
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The Summer I was Four isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1991. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Summer I was Four?
The Summer I was Four (1991) was directed by Kohei Ando.