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It's 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, where she begins to reconnect to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
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Intimate and heartwarming story
This movie jumps between two periods in our protagonist's life: her childhood memories and her present-day adult self. Completely exhausted with Tokyo's hustle, she takes a break to visit friends in the Tohoku countryside and help harvest safflower for making dye. Even if only for just a moment, she wanted to swap her rushed city routine for the slow, peaceful rhythm of rural life. During the train ride towards the countryside of Yamagata, she starts looking back at who she was as a kid and pond