The most beautiful rice paddy ever filmed — yes, I'm serious, and yes, you'll cry over grains.
A film about rice cultivation that depicts the most beautiful rice field landscape in Japanese cinema history and the most realistic depiction of modern rice farmers.
Cinematography
Those rice fields will haunt your dreams — in a good way.
Direction
Yasuda finds entire seasons of emotion in one planting cycle.
Director
Junichi Yasuda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yuno Sakura actually trained for six months with the featured farming cooperative before filming began, and several shots use real harvests she participated in.
The film quietly documents the average age of Japanese rice farmers now exceeding 67, making Hikari's presence almost fantastical — a deliberate choice Yasuda never addresses directly.
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