A Town and a Tall Chimney

A Town and a Tall Chimney

2019 · 130 min · ★ 8.0 · History, Drama

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 · Written by Yoshinori Watanabe

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Asato Ide Saburo Sekine
Dai Watanabe Junpei Kaya
Riria Kojima Chiho Kaya
Koji Kikkawa Yoshinosuke Kihara
Tatsuya Nakadai Hyoma Sekine
Shinya Owada Professor Shimura
Ayako Kobayashi Fumi
Hiroyuki Watanabe Kisaragi
Naomasa Musaka Yoshinosuke Omura
Mitsunori Isaki Tsuneyoshi Sekine
Masanori Ishii Namizo Ohira
Yukijiro Hotaru Yao Sadakichi

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