The Stars Converge

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The Stars Converge
Japanese Title Chirusoku no Natsu
Format 2003 / 35mm / 114 min / Color
Production Companies Premier International/ Prenom H./ Japan Home Video/
Eisei Gekijo/ MAX-A/ CODE/ Yamaguchi Broadcasting
Producers Masaaki Usui
Director Kiyoshi Sasabe
Screenplay: Kiyoshi Sasabe Cinematography: Masaaki Sakae
Original Music: Mino Kabasawa
Cast: Yuri Mizutani as Ikuko Endo, Juri Ueno as Mari Sugiyama , Asami Katsura as Tomoe
Fujimura, Takayo Mimura as Reiko Kikawa
Japanese Release 2004

Synopsis
In 1977 in the port city of Shimonoseki, Ikuko (Yuri Mizutani) is an entrant in a track and field meet being held as a goodwill event with South Korean sister city Pusan. There she meets and falls in love with South Korean boy An Tei Hou (Junpei), a fellow high jump competitor. A year later on the day of the Tanabata festival (known as “Chirusoku” in Korean), the young lovers are
reunited and vow to meet again in four years time. Some twenty-six years later, Ikuko has become a high school P.E. teacher and fondly remembers her youthful love affair. The track and field event she competed in has not been held since the onset of Japan’s economic recession, but is to be revived this year. Ikuko participates as a coach, and she comes to know that a Korean man is the sponsor to make this event happen again.


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