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중년의 나이에 징집된 주인공은 동료로부터 자신이 죽으면 아내에게 엽서를 전해달라는 부탁을 받고, 이후 그의 부탁대로 엽서를 전해주러 동료의 아내를 찾아간다. 그러나 그녀는 가문을 지키기 위해서라는 이유로 죽은 남편의 동생과 강제로 결혼했으나 남편의 동생도, 시아버지도 죽고 결국 혼자서 살아가고 있다. 전쟁으로 인한 비극 속에서 홀로 살 결심을 한 여자와 살아 남은 것에 대한 죄책감에 시달리는 남자. 황무지에서 피어나는 희망을 유머와 소시민적 공감으로 그려내고 있다.
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The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.
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Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to recognize Michiko, his first love from high school. Shohei has been leading a dissolute bachelor life, paying for the company of high school girls and dating an older woman who works in a local bar, but in reality, for the last twenty years, he has not forgotten Michiko. Unfortunately though, Michiko doesn't remember him at all. Shohei becomes more and more persistent in his attempts to get her to recall their past. At first she is annoyed by his overtures, but gradually warms to the doctor. Under Shohei's kind and patient care, Michiko's condition improves and her cancer becomes operable. The operation is a success, but now Shohei himself learns that he has terminal cancer.
Producer
80년대 일본, 극심한 가난에 고통 받던 젊은 모녀는 결국 마을을 탈출하기 위해 범죄를 계획한다. 이들은 남자를 유혹해 방심하게 한 뒤 온몸을 마비시키는 독약을 먹여 돈을 뺏으려 한다.
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About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grandmother. The superb cast portrays this serious and realistic situation with heart-warming compassion, stressing the importance of empathizing with the victims of this difficult disease.
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큰 재산 없이 노년에 접어든 야마모토는 이런저런 사고를 치면서 큰딸 노리코의 보살핌을 받으며 살고 있다. 하지만 야마모토는 딸의 앞길을 막고 싶지 않다는 생각에 실버타운에 스스로 들어가려 한다. 그런 아버지의 모습을 보는 노리코의 마음은 갈수록 불편해진다.
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Yukie is a romance story about an American veteran (Bo Swenson) of the Korean War veteran and his undying love for a beautiful Japanese nurse named Yukie (Mitsuko Baisho) who marries him despite her parents' objections.
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A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.
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Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.
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When the 'Lowly Ronin' helps an orphaned teenage girl avoid being turned into a prostitute, she then claims he is her father and they start a farm as father and daughter until fate steps in and he must draw his sword.
