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A Distant Cry from Spring

1980 · 123 min

A quiet, patient rural drama that builds tenderness through shared work and small kindnesses, ending on a restrained ache.

Tagline
A man, a woman, and her son – three lives thrown together on a stormy night.
Overview
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the heart of the mother and shows her boy the importance of grit and kindness, but then he leaves with the autumn wind.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • found family
  • love
  • redemption
  • parenthood
Places
  • countryside
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Yoji Yamada
Written by
Yoji Yamada, Yoshitaka Asama
Starring
Ken Takakura, Chieko Baisho, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tetsuya Takeda, Noko Konoha, Mizuho Suzuki, Tokuko Sugiyama, Tappei Shimokawa
Music
Masaru Satō
Cinematography
Tetsuo Takaha
Runtime
123 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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