A ghost kid crashes summer vacation and nobody thinks to call an exorcist.
This short film introduces Semira, a strange boy who comes to play with Ojaru and his chums and bears a marked resemblance to a boy of the same name who spent a summer with the village elders when they were boys, long ago.
Direction
Akitaro Daichi makes 47 minutes feel like a whole summer.
Production
Sun-drenched rural Japan that makes you smell cicadas.
Director
Akitaro Daichi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Akitaro Daichi also directed Fruits Basket and Kodocha, so he basically owns your childhood emotions.
Semira's name comes from 'semi' (cicada)—Japanese symbols of fleeting summer and the impermanence of youth, which basically ruins the movie in the best way possible.
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