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Little DJ

65% | Dec 15, 2007

Taro is 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 and the Doctor's hospital-director father. 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. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, 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...

Top Billed Cast

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Ryunosuke Kamiki
Taro Takano
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Ryoko Hirosue
Tamaki - Adult
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Shigeyuki Totsugi
Taro Takasaki

Featured Crew

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Tadashi Onitsuka
Writer
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Koto Nagata
Screenplay
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Uiko Miura
Screenplay
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Tsuyoshi Imai
Editor
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Jun Fukumoto
Director of Photography
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Shinji Watanabe
Sound
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Tokumitsu Ichikawa
Gaffer
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Noritaka Sasaki
Production Design
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Naoki Sato
Original Music Composer
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Ivy Chen
Still Photographer
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Koto Nagata
Director
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Hirosaku Uchida
Lighting Technician

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