A Town and a Tall Chimney

Overview

Japan in 1910, industrialization is unstoppable and devastating entire areas in the name of progress. In X, a farming village in Ibaraki Prefecture, the environment is so polluted that the plants in the fields die and the air, which is laden with toxic smoke, can no longer be breathed. But Saburo, the grandson of the village elder, can no longer put up with this and forms the resistance of the villagers. In Junpei, the idealistic employee of Hitachi, he finds an unexpected ally, and together they fight for a way to save the village.

Directed by Katsuya Matsumura

Top cast

A

Asato Ide

Saburo Sekine

Dai Watanabe

Junpei Kaya

Riria Kojima

Chiho Kaya

Koji Kikkawa

Yoshinosuke Kihara

Tatsuya Nakadai

Hyoma Sekine

S

Shinya Owada

Professor Shimura

A

Ayako Kobayashi

Fumi

Hiroyuki Watanabe

Kisaragi

Naomasa Musaka

Yoshinosuke Omura

Mitsunori Isaki

Tsuneyoshi Sekine

Masanori Ishii

Namizo Ohira

Yukijiro Hotaru

Yao Sadakichi

Yousuke Saito

Gondo

Atsushi Shinohara

Saemon Hirabayashi

M

Masaaki Jonouchi

Sonsaku Hirabayashi

I

Ian Moore

Charles Olsen

Kensuke Owada

Ryo Toyomitsu

Kyooko Tooyama

Sawako Agawa

Narrator (voice)

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