Tears of Persephone
ペルセポネーの泪
- Duration:
- 102 min
- Japanese theatrical release:
- November 26, 2021
- Cast:
- Shu Watanabe, Ayame Goriki ,Manami Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Yuhi, Hiroaki Iwanaga
- Director:
- Teppei Isobe, Yasuaki Genda
- Synopsis:
- "Futa, a young man, who moved from an urban city, keeps working diligently in his field but is unable to produce a satisfactory harvest. He is pressured to repay Okura, a moneylender, for the house and field bought from the lender.
Minori, naturally appears and becomes Futa's common-law wife. She senses his struggle and gives her ring to him.
Considering a recommendation to change the expensive-looking ring into money, Futa hesitantly goes downtown and is swindled out of it by a strange man who tells Futa his sad life story.
Futa chases after the man and meets Yoko, a mesmerizing woman, at the bar where he finally ends up at.
Meanwhile, Minori has a secret which she doesn't want to reveal to Futa.
Their bond is swayed by strange people and before long find themselves lost in a world where the line between dream and reality is blurred."