The Thousand Year Fire

Synopsis

Having lost both his mother and father, an 11-year-old city boy is sent to live with his grandparents in a small seaside village. Feeling responsible for his father's accidental death, he becomes increasingly introverted and finds himself unable to make friends with the local kids. Then an eccentric elderly doctor takes him under his wing, and tells him of an ancient ceremony where a sacred flame must be brought back from a remote island by a lone swimmer.

Director

Naoki Segi

Written by

Kei Kosaka

Studio

Eiga Sennenbi Seisaku Jôei Iinkai

Released

11 September 2004

Genres

Drama