Fireworks
Aug 18 2017
•2h 30m
•Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.
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Suzu Hirose
Nazuna Oikawa (voice)
Masaki Suda
Norimichi Shimada (voice)
Mamoru Miyano
Yūsuke Azumi (voice)
Shintaro Asanuma
Jun'ichi (voice)
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