
Masahiro Shinoda
Director

Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy. Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother, killed in the just-ended WWII. The lad spends much of the trip trying to talk his elder brother out of running away. They encounter an array of characters on the journey. Most prominent among them a black marketeer who, like the elder brother, feels that the "new ways" can only benefit him, and work against the boys' father, who is strict and traditional.
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Masahiro Shinoda
Director
Hideyuki Kasahara
Onda Keita, younger

Shima Iwashita
Fuji

Kimiko Yo
Woman Gambler

Naoto Takenaka
Soldier holding a skeleton

Kyôzô Nagatsuka
Koichi
Jun Toba
Koji
Hinano Yoshikawa
Yukiko
Sayuri Kawauchi
Onda Hideko
Takashi Tsumura
Interpreter

Kyôzô Nagatsuka
Elder Keita

Michiko Hada
Komachi
Junji Takada
Black Marketeer
Ako Tomizawa
Woman street speaker
Yû Aku
Writer
Katsuo Naruse
Writer