Little DJ
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- Movie: Little DJ
- Romaji: Little DJ: Chiisana koi no monogatari
- Japanese: Little DJ 小さな恋の物語
- Director: Kotoe Nagata
- Writer: Kotoe Nagata, Uiko Miura, Tadashi Onitsuka (novel)
- Producer:
- Cinematography: Jun Fukumoto
- Release Date: December 15, 2007
- Runtime: 100 Min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Her hero is Taro (Ryonosuke Kamiki), a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor (Shigeyuki Sato) and the doc's hospital-director father (Yoshio Harada).
The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. The Candies, anyone?
He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki (Mayuko Fukuda), a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman.
We can see what's coming, can't we? Young love buds and blooms. Meanwhile, Taro's PA program (called, imitatively, "Sound Express") becomes a hit with the staff and patients, including Tamaki, though Taro's three adult roommates are not all enthralled. Inevitably, Tamaki heals and leaves, while Taro stays — and weakens. I won't spoil the third act for you, though you can write it yourself if you've seen more than one Japanese hospital melodrama. Also, the film's framing device — with a present-day Tamaki (Ryoko Hirosue) as a reminiscing radio producer — doesn't telegraph the ending so much as announce it. --- Japan Times
Cast
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| Ryunosuke Kamiki | Mayuko Fukuda | Ryoko Hirosue | Shigeyuki Totsugi | Eri Murakawa |
| Taro Takano | Tamaki | Tamaki (adult) | Taro Takasaki | Kanae |
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| Katsuya Kobayashi | Yoshio Harada | Ken Ishiguro | Ken Mitsuishi | Naomi Nishida | Yutaka Matsushige |
| Makoto Ozaki | Yuji Takasaki | Masahiko Takano | Yuki | Hiroko Takano | Suteji |
Additional Cast Members:
- Kento Kaku - Shuhei Yuki
- Yasuko Mori - Tae
- Taro Omiya
- Sanae Miyata
- Porche Okite
- Sakuya Nakamura
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