An indentured Chinese laborer, brought to Japan to work in a coal mine during WWII, manages to escape his captors. He hides out in the Japanese countryside, so far from human habitation that he does not realize when the war ends, with ultimately tragic results.
Seiji Arihara
Director
Kenyu Horiuchi
Wang Yingren (voice)
Yoshino Takamori
Tomoko Kitabatake (voice)
Aruno Tahara
Seisaku Kitabatake (voice)
Kumiko Takizawa
Shige Kitabatake (voice)
Teiji Ōmiya
Zenzo (voice)
Hiro Yuuki
Shinichi Kitabatake (voice)
Rica Fukami
Miss Toshiko (voice)
Dai Sasahara
Hunter (voice)
Eiji Itoh
Wada (voice)
Sayuri Sadaoka
Tamiko Shibata (voice)
Hiroshi Naka
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