Casts & Crew
Tomokazu Miura
Fujio Kawajiri
Eri Watanabe
Yuko Kawajiri
Chosuke Ikariya
Yuko's father
Tsurutaro Kataoka
Michio Hirose
Yûko Natori
Kimiko
Also Directed by Tsutomu Abe
Higashide Kyoko is a university librarian. She also helps her parents with their drycleaning company. She is involved with a childhood friend from the neighborhood, Yanase Kota. He is the son of the local tofu maker and has begun a moderately successful career as a stand-up comedian. A visiting lecturer from Tokyo falls head-over-heels in love with Kyoko and asks her to go abroad with him to Beijing, where he has to spend the next few years for his research. But Kyoko cannot decide. -- Berlin International Film Festival