The film depicts the life of a man who works at a crematorium he inherited from his father. An adaptation of Yoshiko Shigekane's novel Smoke of Mountain Air.
Directed by Nobuhiko Hosaka
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Released
November 15, 1984
1h 52m
Japanese
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Iwai
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Toshiro’s dad
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