A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
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The people behind it
Kantarō Suga
Shuji
Hiroyuki Takano
Young Shuji
Chigusa Takayama
Shuji's Mother
Kaoru Yachigusa
Married woman
Keiko Niitaka
Pregnant
Masumi Harukawa
Air woman
Izumi Hara
Phantom of old woman
Yoshio Harada
Arashi
Masahiro Saito
Longsocks
J.A. Seazer
Tengu Kurama
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A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
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