
Little DJ
Overview
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...
Status:
Released
Release Date:
2007-12-15
Runtime:
1h 40m
Director:
Koto Nagata
Writer:
Koto Nagata, Tadashi Onitsuka, Uiko Miura
Top Cast

Ryunosuke Kamiki
Taro Takano

Mayuko Fukuda
Tamaki

Ryoko Hirosue
Tamaki - Adult

Shigeyuki Totsugi
Taro Takasaki

Eri Murakawa
Kanae

Yutaka Matsushige
Suteji

Ken Mitsuishi
Yuki

Kento Kaku
Shuhei Yuki

Katsuya Kobayashi
Makoto Ozaki

Naomi Nishida
Hiroko Takano

Ken Ishiguro
Masahiko Takano

Yoshio Harada
Yuji Takasaki
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