Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
2015, Japanese. Directed by Tetsuya Matsushima.
Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 1 August 2015
- Original title
- ソ満国境 15歳の夏
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Tetsuya Matsushima, Naoyuki Tomomatsu
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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story runs 94 minutes (1h 34m).
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Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 August 2015. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story?
Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story (2015) was directed by Tetsuya Matsushima and stars Ryûichirô Shibata, Miho Kanazawa, Noboru Kaneko.