Over the Hilltop

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Movie: Over the Hilltop
Romaji: Oka o Koete
Japanese: 丘を越えて
Director: Banmei Takahashi
Assistant Director: Takeo Kakinuma
Writer: Inose Naoki (novel), Tsutomu Konno
Producer: Koichi Kusakabe
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Release Date: May 17, 2008
Runtime: 114 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Period-1930
Production Company: There's Enterprise
Distributor: T-Joy, There's Enterprise
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

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Set in the early Showa period, the story follows working class ‘moga‘ Yoko (Chizuru Ikewaki) who becomes personal secretary to author and founder of the Akutagawa and Naoki literary prizes Kikuchi Kan (Toshiyuki Nishida) and is introduced to Tokyo’s burgeoning high society. She finds herself attracted to a handsome young editor named Ma Hae-Song (Hidetoshi Nishijima) descended from Korean nobility who dreams of returning to modernize his homeland, while at the same time the ageing Kan falls in love with Yoko and her youthful vitality. But war is looming on the horizon…

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