# Das Leben des Budori Gusko (2012)

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**Original title**: *グスコーブドリの伝記*
**Runtime**: 106 min
**Genres**: Drama, Animation, Fantasy
**Directed by**: Gisaburō Sugii
**Written by**: Gisaburō Sugii
**Starring**: Shun Oguri, Shioli Kutsuna, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tamiyo Kusakari, Hayashiya Shōzō IX, Ryūzō Hayashi

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Gusukō meets a grumpy professor. The orphaned meteorologist flees Japan’s dust-bowl 1920s only to join a tiny team trying to restart the rain by detonating a volcano. A measured fable about aimless youth and stubborn science.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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