Director: Kobayashi Masahiro
Script: Kobayashi Masahiro
Cinematographer: Takama Kenji
Editor: Kaneko Naoki
Sound: Fukada Shin
Music: Sakuma Junpei
Cast: Nakaday Tatsuya, Tokunaga Eri, Awashima Chikage, Kawaga Teruyuki
Production: Monkey Town Productions
4F Towa Bldg
10-7, 3 chome Ginza
Chuo-ku
Tokyo 104-0061
Japan
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Year: 2010
35 mm, Colour, 134 min,
OV Japanese with French Subtitles
French Premiere
Tadao, who lives in a lonely fishing village, is a man who spent his life fishing the Pacific herring. He retired after injuring his leg, and lives alone with his granddaughter Haru after his only daughter killed herself. Haru was working as an elementary school nutritionist while taking care of her grandfather, but she lost her job when the school closed down. One day Haru tells Tadao that she wants to move to the city to find a new job and that one of his siblings should look after him. Tadao is angry but has no choice. So, they set off on a journey to visit his estranged siblings. Their journey develops around a theme of family reconciliation. Both understand the harshness of life and find the preciousness of human relations through their trip. It is a journey where Tadao looks back on his life and where Haru finds a new future.