A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)

Original title

遙かなる山の呼び声

Directed by

Yōji Yamada

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed dairy farmer and her young son live a quiet life in rural Hokkaido. Their routine is interrupted when a mysterious drifter arrives and stays to work on the farm. The man's hidden past slowly comes to light as bonds form between them.

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What happens

A Distant Cry from Spring (Japanese: 遙かなる山の呼び声, Hepburn: Haruka naru yama no yobigoe) is a 1980 Japanese drama film co-written and directed by Yoji Yamada. Set amid Hokkaido's rural landscape, it follows a widowed dairy farmer and her son who are transformed by the arrival of a mysterious drifter with a hidden past. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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