Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.
Mieko Harada
Keigo Matsuyama
Shogo Matsuyama
Kyōzō Nagatsuka
Kaneko Iwasaki
