Plots(1)
The action takes place in a small town near the mountains. The heroine, Machi, is a high school student, who has yet to find her direction in life. One day, she and her friends start making up a story, which they decide to continue as a kind of relay. One after another, the girls continue the dreamlike tale, which unfolds like a "future history", invisible to the protagonists. Meanwhile, for the adults of the town things are different. Their "story" is forged from the realities of life and from their past. The two stories progress side by side, never seeming to cross. And yet, whithin each story, similarities begin to emerge. One day, a heavy rainstorm causes a landslide at the croquet pitch. The storm reveals a buried forest, preserved since the eruption of a volcano centuries ago. By and by, the separate realms of dreams, stories, past, present and future all start to amalgamate, creating a fantasy world... (Pyramide Distribution)
(more)Cast
Karen
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Sumiko Sakamoto
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Akira Sakata
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