Childhood Days
- IMDb link: 0175527
- IMDb rating: 7.4 (283 votes) Search
- Genres: Drama
- Director: Masahiro Shinoda
- Cast: Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Horioka, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Noritake Kobinata and others
- Release date: 12 Jan 1990
- Release year: 1990
- Runtime: 119 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Keywords: period drama, coming of age drama, boy, rural setting, train, coming of age, teenager, world war two, based on book
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A Tokyo boy finds himself in rural Japan during WWII evacuations. Among village children, he navigates new friendships and separation anxiety while B-29 bombers fly overhead.
Bombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures. Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo) and his new schoolmates (who are villagers) don't exactly know what is going on in the war. They see the B-29 bombers and the glow of cities on fire, but the problems of being separated from one's mother and surviving among one's peers loom larger than international politics.
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