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Shinobugawa
JAPAN · 2000

Shinobugawa

Nobuhiko Obayashi
romance family expectations rural Japan social class coming of age
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Synopsis

It is the 1950’s, and the protagonist, identified only as ‘I,’ has come from Tokyo to study, burdened by the high expectations of his poor family in northeastern Japan. He meets a young woman named Shino who works in a small restaurant in the Komagome area of Tokyo. They fall in love, and he takes her to his family home through the heavy snow for their wedding. He introduces Shino to his elderly p

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