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Whistling after Dark

Whistling after Dark

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 15, 2009

Runtime

1h 59m

Original Title

よるのくちぶえ

Production Companies

Tokyo University of the Arts

Director

Tomoko Toyama

Description

Kuroshi Mayama, age 14, lives alone with his mother Namiko. Though he was just under the age of one when he came to this town with his mom, he remembers everything from that day: Gettings on the bus in his mom's arms, an old woman who spoke some words to him, and the encounter with a poet... One night, with Kuroshi's birthday approaching, Father shows up unexpectedly. He insists that he and Kuroshi's mother had made an arrangement – that Kuroshi was to live with his mother until his 15th birthday and then live with his father. As Kuroshi's world gets turned upside down, his family, the people around him and even himself start to change.