Tsuyoshi Kinoshita

Where Spring Comes Late

Yoji Yamada

Chieko Baisho, Hisashi Igawa

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.