Middle-aged widower Tetsuro finds an unconscious, homeless young man on the riverbank in his small seaside town. Offering him room in his home, Tetsuro and the man who calls himself Shinichi develop a father-son dynamic, despite the secrets that linger between them.
A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other students who are in the same boat as he. When a couple of the guys go to a hostess club the man meets an unconventional girl who likes him and a relationship is born.
A humanistic drama about an encounter in the life of a woman around the age of 40, set during the Obon season when the living take time to reflect on the dead. Director Fukuma Kenji is also a poet and a university professor. Chikage (Yoshino Akira) is reunited with Shohei (Suzuki Tsunekichi), a man she once lived together with, and his daughter Saki (Kohara Saori). After several twists and turns, Chikage and Shohei come to share the same roof again, but Saki is unable to accept it. Then one year later during Obon, relations eventually thaw between Chikage and Saki.
A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.
Tsuneyuki Suzuki (鈴木 常之, Suzuki Tsuneyuki), best known by his artist name Tsunekichi Suzuki (鈴木 常吉, Suzuki Tsunekichi, November 24, 1954 – July 6, 2020) was an actor, singer-songwriter and composer. He was the vocalist and guitarrist of the Japanese band Cement Mixers (セメントミキサーズ). After the group disbanded, que continued as a solo artist. He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2019 and passed away on July 6, 2020, at the age of 65.
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