Top Cast
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Mie Nakao
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Nobuyuki Suzuki
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Win Morisaki
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Kenjiro Tsuda
Overview
An old woman in the countryside begins another ordinary day. Breakfast with a young town official on a small table, chatter with a delivery man on the porch. However, she begins to feel a faint discord somewhere in her usual days.
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