Movie
Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
Overview
Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
Details
- Release date
- 2014-08-30
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Shochiku, Robot Communications, dentsu, GYAO, Kodansha, Yomiuri Shimbun Company, Active Cine Club
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Ai Hashimoto as Ichiko
- Takahiro Miura as Yuta
- Mayu Matsuoka as Kikko
- Yoichi Nukumizu as Shigeyuki
- Karen Kirishima as Fukuko
- Momone Shinokawa as Young Ichiko
Crew
- Junichi Mori - Director
- Junichi Mori - Screenplay
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