3 years on from hospitalité, Kiki Sugino and Koji Fukada are back again with this socially-conscious film about a 18-year-old girl in-between adolescence and adulthood who spends a summer in a valley and enjoys romance. Sakuko, a 18-year-old girl studying for her university entrance exams, decides to accompany her aunt Mikie on a trip to a seaside town. There she befriends Takashi, a refugee from Fukushima who has dropped out of high school and works at a motel run by Ukichi, a friend of Mikie. In-between childhood and adulthood, Sakuko starts to understand the difficulties of becoming an adult.
Director : Kōji FukadaCast : Ena Koshino|Fumi Nikaido|Hiroko Matsuda|Kanji Furutachi|Kiki Sugino|Kotaro Shiga|Makiko Watanabe|Mayu Tsuruta|Tadashi Otake|Taiga
Genre : Drama
Release Date : 1/18/2014
Country : Japan
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