Film · Drama

The Thousand Year Fire (2004)

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

Writers

Kei Kosaka

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Release date

September 11, 2004

Original title

千年火