Moonlight Serenade

Overview

A journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake recalls a boat trip he took as a boy after WWII to bury his brother's ashes, during which his family grapples with life in occupied Japan.

Stream

Criterion Channel

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Top cast

Kyōzō Nagatsuka

Kōkichi Onda / Elder Keita Onda

Hideyuki Kasahara

Keita Onda as a child

Jun Toba

Kōji Onda

Shima Iwashita

Fuji Onda

Hinano Yoshikawa

Yukiko Mizukami

Michiko Hada

Ms. Komachi

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Junji Takada

Mr. Black Marketeer

Toshiya Nagasawa

Mr. Demobilized

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Sayuri Kawauchi

Hideko Onda

Shōhei Hino

Benshi

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Headmaster

Akaji Maro

Circus performer