Movie Description:
For the first time in years, aging fisherman Takata Gou-ichi boards a bullet train toTokyo when he learns his estranged son is gravely ill. Butat the hospital, his son refuses to see him. Daughter in law Rie urges Takata to watcha videotape of a documentary his son was filming inrural China. Moved by what he see, Takata vows to completehis son`s work. Though laden with obstacles, his odysseyinto the heart of China and thekinship he develops with a fatherless boy and the villagers who care for him recaptures a sense of family he thought he had lost a long time ago.