もう手があがらなくなるんです。
もちをひっくりかえすのはできたけどね。
やっぱり杵をつくのは男の仕事だね。

おもちつきの横では
近くの山に分け入って栗とりをする子供たち。
山は自然の遊びの宝庫。



おなかが空けば、つきたてのおもちを食べたり、
カレーをみんなでちゃぶ台で食べる。

これが、日本の古き良き時代の暮らしなんだろなと思う。
空気はおいしくて、人々は温かい。


こころあらたに、今年は一層日本の美しさ、あるもの探しをしようと思う。

もう手があがらなくなるんです。
もちをひっくりかえすのはできたけどね。
やっぱり杵をつくのは男の仕事だね。

おもちつきの横では
近くの山に分け入って栗とりをする子供たち。
山は自然の遊びの宝庫。



おなかが空けば、つきたてのおもちを食べたり、
カレーをみんなでちゃぶ台で食べる。

これが、日本の古き良き時代の暮らしなんだろなと思う。
空気はおいしくて、人々は温かい。

こころあらたに、今年は一層日本の美しさ、あるもの探しをしようと思う。

In a village among mountains, western Nara prefecture in Japan. Shigeki lives peacefully at a retirement home with fond memories of his late wife. Machiko, newly-appointed caretaker to the home, also lost her child in an accident and lives her life with the sense of loss and sadness. Shigeki and Machiko, getting over the two opposite positions, care-receiver and care-taker, gradually come to understand each other as two persons in the same situation that live in mourning their beloved ones' death.
One day, they go visit the grave of Shigeki's wife in a forest. In the forest, filled with the primordial energy, they encounter...

Bearing a new life means dividing our life. First, I was planning to film from the day I conceived a child and to the moment I gave birth. But I realized, while filming, that this is not the story of "one life." In the end, the film sublimed to a higher stage on which we can witness the knot tying one life with another. - Kawase Naomi

5 years have passed since the incident. Now, Shun, twin younger brother, age 17, is a high school student. He draws pictures on canvases, recollecting the memories of his vanished brother. He shares faint romance with Yu, friend from childhood, but they behave awkwardly. Shun, Yu, and their families have unfocused concerns respectively and try hard to get out of the difficulties.

Some day, Yu is told the secret of her birth. And the fate of the vanished brother is clarified. Holding, in their minds, the things and the persons they lost, Shun and Yu are about to move on.