Nasu Shonenki

Fourteen-year-old boys navigate 1954 post-war Japan in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture. Their days are forged in schoolyard alliances and sudden fractures, in quiet rebellions against rigid rules and the adults who orbit their lives. This is a tale not just of youth, but of the grown-ups whose weathered lives are inextricably linked to these teenagers. The film becomes a poignant excavation of an era where every laugh and slight carries the echo of recent conflict, painting a collective portrait of a generation at a crossroads.