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THE FINAL PIECE

BANJO NO HIMAWARI

By Naoto KUMAZAWA

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Book adaptation - Post-Production 2025

What is it that enables us to say we are truly alive?
This mystery begins with a man's corpse found on a mountain, holding a bag of valuable shogi pieces. What gradually unravels is a startling truth and a painful and sad ‘life choice’.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Book adaptation, Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 122 mn
- Director(s)
- Naoto KUMAZAWA
- Cast
- Kentarô SAKAGUCHI, Ken WATANABE
- Synopsis
- Keisuke, a 10-year-old boy, living hard despite being abused by his father, finds a ray of light in the midst of his suffering and conflict ---- a shogi world where he fights quietly and passionately in his sharpened senses. Even though he gives up and tries to escape from the light, his passion for shogi continues to guide him thereafter. Eventually, he would learn the true meaning of life.