

At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...
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Grave, contemplative, character-led and intimate.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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Cast
- Nobuo TobitaTaku Morisaki (voice)
- Yoko SakamotoRikako Muto (voice)
- Toshihiko SekiYutaka Matsuno (voice)
- Yuri AmanoAkiko Shimizu (voice)
- Kae ArakiYumi Kohama (voice)
- Jun'ichi KanemaruOkada (voice)
- Ai SatouTaku's Mother (voice)
- Aya HisakawaYoung Girl (voice)
- Tomokazu SekiMinarai (voice)
- Hikaru MidorikawaTadashi Yamao (voice)
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- Tomomi MochizukiDirector
- Keiko NiwaScreenplay
- Saeko HimuroNovel
- Atsushi OkuiDirector of Photography
- Shigeru NagataOriginal Music Composer
- Toshio SuzukiProducer
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