Goodbye Money, Go to the Poverty Village

The once ordinary bank clerk Takami Takeharu (played by Ryuhei Matsuda) suffered from a rare occupational disease. He was extremely allergic to money. Once he saw or touched it, he would feel dizzy, nauseated and even go into shock. In order to live a zero-yen life, he resigned and came to Shangluqie Village, a small mountain village in Northeast China with an aging population of up to 40%, preparing to be self-reliant and have enough food and clothing. The somewhat over-enthusiastic village chief Amano Yosaburo (played by Takashi Abe) cannot sit idly by and ignore this young man who has no common sense of life and survival skills. He and his wife Akiko (played by Matsu Takako) intervene in Atake's life, allowing him to clumsily establish himself in the village. The grandfather (played by Toshiyuki Nishida), who is worshiped as a god, holds a camera every day and records every detail of Awu and the villagers' work. The village chief is about to be re-elected, and Shangluche Village is in danger of being merged into other administrative districts. At the same time, the arrival of a mysterious person (played by Matsuo Suzuki) revealed the little-known sad past with Saburo... This film is adapted from the original work of the cartoonist Igarashi Mikio.