director: Atsushi Funahashi
composer: Jan Duszynski
With: Marika Matsumoto, Riki Miura, Takahiro Miura, Yûshi Ozawa, Tarô Suwa, Yô Takahashi, Asami Usuda, Yûrei Yanagi, a.o.
Hitachi city, Ibaraki prefecture, east central Japan, the present day. Shiori and her husband Sasho Kenji work together in a small metal-pressing factory run by Kimura and are planning to have a family. Following the March 2011 earthquake, the city, on Japan's east coast, is still coping with the economic and psychological fall-out.
ATSUSHI FUNAHASHI (1963): Echoes (2002), Big River (2005), New York Streets (2006, TV series documentary), Deep in the Valley (2009), Nuclear Nation (2012, documentary), Cold Bloom (2012)