Village of Dreams

Year: 1996

Runtime: 112 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Yōichi Higashi

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The story follows nine‑year‑old twin brothers growing up in a quiet Japanese village in the years after World War II. Their mother works as a schoolteacher and their father as a civil servant, while they navigate relationships with an elderly landlord, a rough newcomer at school, and encounter three mysterious, elderly‑woman spirits that linger in the countryside. Their everyday lives intertwine with these enigmatic figures, shaping their childhood in a world still healing from war.

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