In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s family tragedy contains instances of both; diagnosed with lung cancer, Fujio refuses surgery and returns home with his son Yoshio.

• Tatsuya Nakadai
• Kazuki Kitamura
• Akemi Omori
• Shinobu Terajima