Suzuran

8.5IMDb Score
Released:1999-04-05
Genre:Drama
Duration:15 min
Country:Japan
Director:
Actors:Chieko Baisho, Rumi Hiiragi, Isao Hashizume, Hisako Manda, Saburo Ishikura
Production:NHK
Keywords:asadora

Overview:

In 1924, a time when both steam engine trains and early Showa Era's first train stations are just beginning. In the waiting room of Asumoe Station, a small country station, a passenger finds an abandoned baby and rushes to tell the station master, Tokiwa Jiro. The news quickly spreads and soon friends of Tokiwa's along with other townsfolk are saying that this baby must be a gift, it is Tokiwa's recently departed beloved wife reborn as a baby.

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