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...

Directed by: Koto Nagata
Written by: Uiko Miura & Koto Nagata & Tadashi Onitsuka
Release date: 2007-12-15
Runtime: 100 minutes
Cast:
Ryunosuke Kamiki Ryunosuke Kamiki
Taro Takano 
Mayuko Fukuda Mayuko Fukuda
Tamaki 
Ryoko Hirosue Ryoko Hirosue
Tamaki - Adult 
Shigeyuki Totsugi Shigeyuki Totsugi
Taro Takasaki 
Eri Murakawa Eri Murakawa
Kanae 
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Also known as:
  • Little DJ