The Friends (1994)
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
- Released
- 1994-03-12
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Shinji Sōmai, Yōzō Tanaka
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 27 votes
Cast
- Rentaro Mikuni as Kihachi Denpo
- Naoki Sakata as Jun Kiyama
- Yasutaka Oh as Kawabe
- Ken'ichi Makino as Takeshi Yamashita
- Akira Emoto as Nagatomo
- Tsurube Shofukutei as Undertaker
- Minori Terada as Taniguchi
- Naho Toda as Shizuka Kondo
- Shigeru Yazaki as Katsuhiro
- Chikage Awashima as Yayoi Koko
- Ritsuko Nemoto as Tomomi Kiyama
- Yôhei Hamanishi