River of First Love

Year: 2004

Runtime: 113 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Itsumichi Isomura

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Eight‑year‑old Shimpei, who loves fishing and painting, lives with his beautiful mother Satsuki in a home amid nature. Satsuki, frail after losing her husband years earlier, cares for him yet sometimes strictly on her own. Shimpei’s childhood friend Sayuri is deaf, but the two understand each other and spend their time together.

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