Winner of Best Film at this year’s Asian Film Awards, as well as the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and Best Film at the London Film Festival.
From Palace Cinema favourite Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, director of Oscar and BAFTA winner Drive My Car.
Takumi and his daughter Hana live in a small rural village, close to Tokyo. Like generations before them, they live a modest life according to the cycles and order of nature. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a glamping site near Takumi’s house; offering well-heeled Tokyo urbanites a comfortable ‘escape’ to nature.
When two clueless company representatives from Tokyo arrive in an attempt to win over the villagers, it becomes clear that the project will have a negative impact on the local water supply. The pair begin to reassess their own lives as they see how the villagers work with, rather than against, the beauty of the natural world. But not before the threatened development unexpectedly affects Takumi and his young daughter’s life in a most unexpected way.
