This film won the third place in the top ten movies of the year and the Best Actor Award in the "Movie Weekend"! The figure is fading away; the memory is still there! Deep affection for my hometown; who can resonate with it? On Kurahashi Island in the Seto Inland Sea, a couple lived a simple life by carrying stones by boat. Due to industrialization, although they loved their hometown deeply, they had to leave in order to pursue a brighter future and a new world. This is a deeply affectionate and emotional work that praises the hometown. It is a work specially inspired by the director Yoji Yamada of "The Misery of Man" and "Happy Yellow Handkerchief". He lived on Kurahashi Island in Hiroshima Prefecture, where the story takes place, for more than a month, carefully conceived the script, and boldly used the local area for improvisational performances. The results were remarkable and he was recognized as one of Yamada's life masterpieces.
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