March Comes In Like a Lion (1991) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1991 · 118 mins · Japanese

Directed by

Hitoshi Yazaki

Starring

Kiyomi Itō, Makoto Kakeda, Shunichi Nagasaki, Gakuryu Ishii, Masashi Yamamoto, Takashi Naito

The opening sequence shows a series of Polaroid photographs featuring a young boy and his sister. A female narrator introduces them, explaining that she is seven years old and her brother is eight. She recalls that at that age she declared she would marry him, establishing their close, slightly unsettling bond.