Also Directed by Ryota Nakano
A terminally ill single mother is determined to reconcile her splintered family.
A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer’s disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches as the husband and father regresses due to the disease and loses his memory. Interestingly, there are sparkling moments of his life of which the man will not let go...
Masashi (Kazunari Ninomiya) is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro (Satoshi Tsumabuki). Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
Koharu Higashimura (Nanoka Matsubara) is a 17-year-old high school student, living in a rural town. Koharu lives with her older sister Hazuki (Elisa Yanagi) and mother Sawa (Makiko Watanabe). 14 years ago, Koharu's father abandoned their family after meeting a new woman. One evening at dinner time, Sawa tells her daughters that their father has terminal cancer and they should go see him before it's too late. Sawa gives her daughters a camera and asks if they can take a picture of him, because she would like to see. Koharu and Hazuki then leave for the hospital where their father is hospitalized. While riding the train to the hospital, Koharu, who has doesn't have any memories of their father, asks Hazuki about their dad.
