Tasmania Story

Tasmania Story , Tasumania Monogatari? is a 1990 Japaneselanguage film, which was released on July 21, 1990. It was filmed by Pacific Link Communications Japan, the Fuji Television Network, and by David Hannay Productions. Lasting 110 minutes, the film had Kunie Tanaka and Hiroko Yakushimaru as the starring roles. The movie was filmed in Australia, with filming starting in the Southern Hemispheres winter of 1989.

A sixthgrade elementary school student, Shoichi, is visiting his divorced father who lives in Australia after retiring from a leading Japanese company in order to find the Tasmanian tiger. Shoichi had run away from home and is in Sydney looking for his father.The film made more than 2.5 billion yen in the box office and was the recipient of the eight Golden Gross Award Silver Excellence award given out by the Association of Environmental Health. A DVD of the film was released on November 21, 2001 it was released exclusively in Japan. ........

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