-Library Journal
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"This is a delicate and austere telling of a famous love story by Miura Tetsuo... ...Recommended for... Japanese literature collections."
Product Description
This program is an entirely new kind of dramatic presentation. Instead of dramatizing a novel in the conventional way, viewers are invited to create their own images while listening to a reading of the original text. It is the 1950's, and the protagonist, has come from Tokyo to study, burdened by the high expectations of his poor family in northeastern Japan. He meets a young woman named Shino who works in a small restaurant in the Komagome area of Tokyo. They fall in love, and he takes her to his family home through the heavy snow for their wedding. They spend their wedding night listening to bells ringing on sleighs as they glide past along the moonlit snow. The next morning, wrapped in their small world of happiness, they go to a hot spring in the mountains to begin their honeymoon.
