A Distant Cry from Spring

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Yoji Yamada

Status Released

Release Date 1980-03-15

Storyline

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.

"A man, a woman, and her son – three lives thrown together on a stormy night."