Japan

Akashi Takei, Karen Miyama, Shidou Nakamura, Yosuke Asari, Chihiro Otsuka

119 min

2004-01-01

Nothing could rip them apart, when two souls find one . Widower Takumi (Shido Nakamura) lives a quiet life with his six-year-old son Yuji (Akashi Takei) following the lack of wife and mother Mio (Yuko Takeuchi). Yuji unfailingly remembers her promise to him:"I'll be with you again in a year's time, even once the rains come." Whenever they come across a woman sheltering from a monsoon downpour, on the first anniversary of her passing, Takumi and Yuji have a walk in the woods. She bears an uncanny resemblance to Mio, but has no recollection of who she actually is or exactly what she does there. Family life resumes from where they left off, while Takumi and also Mio's memories of their initial encounter in high school. But their new life together is disrupted by the discovery of Mio's old journal, which reveals that the secrets of her past and the way they must say goodbye yet again in six weeks' period...