Little DJ (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... more

Directing:
  • Kotoe Nagata
  • Koto Nagata

Writing:
  • Yuiko Miura
  • Tadashi Onitsuka
  • Kotoe Nagata

Stars:
Release Date: 2007-12-15
themoviedb icon 1 2 3 4 5 6.5/10
  • Country: JP
  • Language: 日本語
  • Runtime: 100

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