Tsunekichi Suzuki

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.

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.

Tetsuro, un veuf d’une cinquantaine d’années, porte secours à un jeune homme qu’il trouve inconscient le long d’une berge de rivière. L’inconnu ne dit rien, sauf s’appeler Shin'ichi. Tout d’abord surpris d’être l’objet de toutes les attentions de Tetsuro, qui le traite comme son propre fils sans poser aucune question, le jeune va petit à petit livrer son passé. Au même moment, une rumeur concernant un incident récent se répand comme un feu de paille. Les villageois accusent Shin'ichi d’en être à l’origine.