Minetaro Hirai

The Story of the Blue-Eyed Girl (2009)

The story is set in a village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kōchi during World War II. Even in this remote mountainous area, the perception of American and British people as "brutes" has taken root, due to the deaths and injuries among the villagers' ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsuo Yasumi  •  Minetaro Hirai
CAST:  Rika Komatsu  •  Houko Kuwashima  •  Yumiko Kobayashi  •  Sumi Shimamoto

The story is set in a village in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kōchi during World War II. Even in this remote mountainous area, the perception of American and British people as "brutes" has taken root, due to the deaths and injuries among the villagers' ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsuo Yasumi  •  Minetaro Hirai
CAST:  Rika Komatsu  •  Houko Kuwashima  •  Yumiko Kobayashi  •  Sumi Shimamoto

Kiku and the Wolf (2008)

Kiku-chan to Ookami is, like most of the Sensou Douwa specials, based on a short story by Nosaka Akiyuki. It is set in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (the Chinese province of Manchuria) during the closing days of Word War II. Life for the Japanese colonists ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsuo Yasumi  •  Minetaro Hirai
CAST:  Ayako Kawasumi  •  Masako Nozawa  •  Sumi Shimamoto  •  Ai Satou

Kiku-chan to Ookami is, like most of the Sensou Douwa specials, based on a short story by Nosaka Akiyuki. It is set in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (the Chinese province of Manchuria) during the closing days of Word War II. Life for the Japanese colonists ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsuo Yasumi  •  Minetaro Hirai
CAST:  Ayako Kawasumi  •  Masako Nozawa  •  Sumi Shimamoto  •  Ai Satou