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Moonlight Serenade (瀬戸内ムーンライト・セレナーデ, Setouchi mūnraito serenāde) is a 1997 Japanese drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda. [1] [2] [3] It was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.
Mar 15, 1997 · Moonlight Serenade: Directed by Masahiro Shinoda. With Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Hideyuki Kasahara, Jun Toba, Shima Iwashita. Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy.
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- Drama
- Masahiro Shinoda
- 1997-03-15
Directed by Masahiro Shinoda. After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
- Masahiro Shinoda
The film opens with documentary footage of the 1995 Hanshin earthquake that flattened Kobe. The devastation reminds an elderly Keita Onda of the ruined landscape of Kobe just after the Allied bombing raids, which he witnessed from his home on nearby Awajishima Island.
- Masahiro Shinoda
Mar 15, 1997 · After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.
A talented singer (Amy Adams) who works at a club gets a chance to perform with a jazz musician (Alec Newman).
Moonlight Serenade is an entertaining mélange of several genres: historical drama, coming-of-age tale, and family drama, with a touch of road movie and two romantic subplots, all kept more or less in focus by a framing story that turns it into a film about the endurance of the Japanese people in the face of everything that life can throw at them.
