Veteran filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi rounds out the second of his two trilogies about his hometown of Onomichi with this film about the budding relationship between a young lad and an eccentric old man. Fifth-grader Yuta (Takuro Atsugi) is a typical city child looking forward to a summer of reading comic books and playing video games. Instead, he is bundled off to his grandparent's house on the Inland Sea. His grandfather, Yuta's parents explain, has been acting strangely as of late -- he eats the offerings in the family altar and once tried to lead attendants at a funeral in a rousing round of calisthenics. Since his mother and father are swamped with work, and his elder sister (Nana Sano) is studying for college entrance exams, Yuta has been asked to look after Grandpa. The old man takes Yuta on a tour of Onomichi, regaling him with 70 years of its history. Along the way, Grandpa slips in and out of the past, increasingly unable to discern between the two.
Takuro Atsuki
as Yuta Ooi
小林桂樹
as Kenshiro Ooi
菅井きん
as Yuta's grandmother
嶋田久作
as Masahiro Ooi
松田美由紀
as Kaori Ooi
Nanami Sano
as Erika Ooi
勝野雅奈恵
as Mikari Kobayashi
石田ひかり
as Yumi Shina
宮﨑あおい
as Tama Kobayashi
Katsuya Koiso
as Octopus boy
Shinya Yamamoto
as Harunosuke (azuki shop owner)
入江若葉
as Mikari's mother
