A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
Dirigida por el prestigioso Isao Takahata (La tumba de las luciérnagas), se trata de una adaptación al largometraje del famoso manga homónimo de Etsushi Haruki. Narra la vida de Chie, una joven que debe lidiar con su problemático padre y una galería de personajes de lo más surrealista.
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them.
