Village of Dreams

In 1940s rural Japan, two nine-year-old twins navigate childhood between postwar dust and village whispers. Their bond is tested by a stern schoolteacher mother, a bureaucrat father, a nosy landlord, a bully classmate, and three spectral octogenarians. The spirits seem less supernatural than the adults.

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Yōichi Higashi directed Village of Dreams in 1996. See Yōichi Higashi's full filmography, where to start with Yōichi Higashi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Yōichi Higashi.

Village of Dreams was released in 1996 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 112 minutes.