眉山

32岁的河野咲子（松嶋菜々子 饰）是一个在东京某旅行社辛苦打拼的职场女性，她离开德岛县眉山老家多年，当年她因身世问题和母亲龙子（宮本信子 饰）心生隔阂，如今一通母亲病危的电话将她再次拉回那个既熟悉又陌生的老家。虽然事隔多年，但母女的关系似乎从未得到缓和。在龙子口中，咲子的父亲始终是早年过世，而咲子却无意中从舅舅那里得知，她的父亲仍健康活在某个地方。几番周转，咲子决心返回东京，并试图寻访父亲的下落。随着母亲病情的加重，咲子渐渐消除心中芥蒂，决定帮助母亲实现最后的心愿…… 　　本片荣获第31届日本电影学院最佳音乐、最佳摄影和最佳照明三项大奖。After her mother is suddenly hospitalized because she has terminal cancer Sakiko returns to her home town Tokushima at the foot of Mt. Bizan. The relationship between mother and daughter isn't good but still she nurses her mother at her sickbed. She always thought her mother was a cold person until her mother gives her a box full of love letters from her father who she never knew and she starts to understand her mother better. Her mothers last wish is to see the Awa Odori festival for the last time before she dies.