現代（1989年）の銀座に空襲で亡くなった少年が蘇り、昭和の戦争の時代が映し出される。

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in the army. Each of these people, like others in the city, hoped to live with their dreams for ‘tomorrow’. But tomorrow never comes for them, as their lives are brought to an abrupt and unexpected end. Knowing how the story ends, in this case, doesn't detract from it at all; rather, it enhances the emotional impact, which is further heightened by the poignant musical score from Teizo Matsumura. 'Ashita' is the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004).

In Kagoshima, in the final days of World War II, an offer of marriage comes to Etsuko Kamiya, who lives with her brother and his wife. The offer comes from Nagayo, but Etsuko is attracted to his friend, Akashi.

Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally lets Kaido go free. Rei is unsettled when Kaido takes on a young street punk, Kazuki, as an apprentice -- with instructions to make Kaido stop drinking. Kazuki, however, would like to go into business with Rei.

Japanese fishery instructor Akira is attracted to beautiful Cuban young girl Martia. Though initially rejected, Akira still returns with Martia to her homeland. On the way he sees a post-revolution Cuba, cultivating fields, relics from the revolution, armies in training, and Castro in a political rally.

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.

ある日、泪橋の近くの兵藤和装店を、英語の百科辞典を売り歩くセールスマン、白井健一が訪れた。店の主人・加吉もその長年の相棒である地玉子屋の一兵も彼を見て驚く。十年前、白井が過激派の学生として警察に追われていたところを、二人に助けられ加吉の家の二階にかくまってもらったのである。しかし、白井は本当は過激派の学生でなく、ある大物の囲い女と深い仲になり、男たちに追われていたところを学生たちの群れにまぎれこんだのであった。そして十年後の今、この家の二階には千鶴という娘がかくまわれていた。千鶴はもとキャバレーのホステスをしていて店をやめる前日、山本というボーイに赤い石をはめこんだ指輪を、客の一人に渡すように頼んで仲間のリカと博多へ旅立ったという。その後山本は何物かにアイスピックで殺されている。白井の妻・秋子が妊娠し、しきりにマイホーム計画を立てる。うんざりした白井の足は自然と泪橋に向かった。そこで千鶴と出合った白井は、近くのスナックへ。千鶴はマスターに二年前の殺人事件と赤い指輪のことをしつこく聞いた。その帰り、白井は初めて千鶴を抱いた。白井は千鶴の友人・リカから、博多の旅というのは千石イエスと呼ばれる初老の男と一緒だったことを聞く。いまその男は研ぎ石屋になっているらしい。千鶴と行ったスナックで、白井はあの赤い指輪を持った、次郎という店の常連に出会った。そして次郎が泥酔したスキを見て、白井は指輪を奪う。指輪を持って白井と千鶴は再びスナックへ。そこに次郎が来た。かつて次郎は千鶴の兄・修造が営むメッキ工場の職工であった。問いつめられた次郎は山本を殺したことを告白する。加吉の家の二階で、抱擁のあと千鶴は白井に「一緒にどこか遠くへ行きたい」と言う。その時、千鶴に誰かから電話がかかって来た。その頃加吉と一兵は、加吉の家から少し見上げる土手を毎日のように、犬を連れて散歩していた老人が死んだのを知り動揺していた。十年前、二人は老人の手帳を拾い、それを届けたときからかなりのお金を受け取っていたのだった。川の見える一兵の鶏小屋で向いあう千鶴と修造。修造は千鶴を連れ戻しに来たのだが、千鶴は嫌がる。千鶴が家を出たのは、修造と相姦したからだった。妹を力づくで犯した修造は、ゆっくりと千鶴の首を絞めた。その時白井は泪橋に佇んでいた。そして川にころがり落ちた千鶴を引きあげ、鈴ヶ森の刑場に連れて行った。

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.

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