When Winter Comes

When Winter Comes (1985)

TMDb

0.0

30/03/1985 • 1h 40m
original-title

冬構え

status

Released

production-companies

NHK

original-language

Japanese

budget

-

revenue

-

An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his deathbed and develops a faint affection for an elegant old woman, but the purpose of his journey is actually to find a place to die. He gives a large sum of money to a young couple, who are poor but have a dream for the future, and tries to throw himself into the sea. The movie depicts the loneliness of an old man who has lost his wife.

production-countries

Japan

spoken-languages

Japanese

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