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Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city. They stay with their kind-hearted aunt and her jovial but heavy-drinking carpenter husband. Keiko, the 17-year-old eldest of five siblings, is gentle and responsible, while 14-year-old Toshiko is lively and childlike, affectionately called "Konchi."
Short feature by Hiroshi Shimizu.
The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
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