MOVIE · 1980
A Distant Cry from Spring
Drama95 min
A Distant Cry from Spring 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.
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