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6.5/10   57 votes
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Director:
Takashi Koizumi
Writers:
Takashi Koizumi (writer)
Keishi Nagi (novel)
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Release Date:
5 October 2002 (Japan) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
An urban Japanese couple decide to move to the country. | add synopsis
Awards:
6 wins & 11 nominations more
User Comments:
life is beautiful more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Akira Terao ... Takao Ueda
Kanako Higuchi ... Michiko Ueda
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Shoji Arano
Hisashi Igawa ... Sayuri's father
Kyôko Kagawa
Tanie Kitabayashi ... Oume
Manami Konishi ... Sayuri
Yasuhiko Naito
Yoko Shioya ... Tanabe
Takahiro Tamura ... Shigenaga Koda
Hidetaka Yoshioka ... Dr. Nakamura
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Letter from the Mountain (International: English title)
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Runtime:
127 min
Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Singapore:PG

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Oume: These 'novels' of yours ... are they 'lies' or are they true stories?
Takao Ueda: Well, they are not 'true'. Maybe they're lies told in order to tell the truth. All right, then ... you can't eat burdock straight from the field but you can cook it to make kinpira. If you ask which is 'real', it's burdock from the field ... but if it wasn't kinpira you'd never know how good it was.
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2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
life is beautiful, 5 July 2003
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Author: Furuya Shiro from Kumamoto, Japan

A couple moves to husband's home village, where he was born as a son of a farmer. Husband is a novelist who won an award ten years ago, but since then nothing has been printed. Wife was a doctor of a leading edge hospital in Tokyo, but had been so busy that she had a panic disorder. In the village she works as an only doctor in the village. This movie describes how the couple are "healed" in this village community, particularly "Oume-san", a 96 years old woman living in a tiny temple of Amitabha Buddha, and Sayuri, a young woman who lost voice but writes for Oume-san. Actual lead is Oume-san. She is lively, frank, hardworking, and simple. This is a story of Oume-san, and the life in beautiful four seasons in Japanese village. The plot is fairly simple, except death of the teacher Kouda and healing of Sayuri. The movie seems to tell a single message through these contrasted episodes.

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