Ichiko, abandoned by her mother, leaves the city to live off the land in Komori, a small village tucked among the mountains in rural Japan. Despite the vacuum left by her mother's disappearance, Ichiko grows to appreciate her independence and her newfound connection to food and the outdoors. This visually lavish film chronicles Ichiko's summer and autumn as she learns to use and appreciate rural folk wisdom and to understand the cycle of life and connectedness in the environment around her.
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Ichiko, abandoned by her mother, leaves the city to live off the land in Komori, a small village tucked among the mountains in rural Japan. Despite the vacuum left by her mother's disappearance, Ichiko grows to appreciate her independence and her newfound connection to food and the outdoors. This visually lavish film chronicles Ichiko's summer and autumn as she learns to use and appreciate rural folk wisdom and to understand the cycle of life and connectedness in the environment around her.
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