Film

Kitamura Tokoku: My Winter Song

1977 · 1h 43m · Romance · Drama

IMDb

5.4

This biopic is centered on New Year's Day of 1894, when Kitamura is recovering from a suicide attempt. Japan is then under the spell of fervent patriotism because the government wants to build up public support for a war with China. Kitamura's literary friends and militant comrades come to visit. They wonder why Kitamura wants to kill himself. Kitamura at first refuses to receive them, then he sits down with them and looks back on his days as a civil rights militant, his stormy love life and his ardent but destructive desire to live literature to the full.

Ranbô Minami

Mari Tanaka

Renji Ishibashi

Mariko Fuji

Jiro Kawarazaki

Ken'ichi Nagira

Akira Kume

Hajime Nishizuka

Masami Horiuchi

Keiko Torii

Midori Hagio

Masaya Oki

• Seiichirō YamaguchiDirector
• Takayuki KanScreenplay
• Kinshirō KuzuiProducer
• Masaki TamuraDirector of Photography
• Yuji TakahashiOriginal Music Composer
• Sachiko YamajiEditor

Release date

December 17, 1977

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

Romance, Drama