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よくがんばりました。
In a festival town, the time between an estranged father and son, and a teacher's heart, begin to loosen
Synopsis
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Yoshito Ishibashi, who has taught social studies at a junior high school for thirty years, supports an unsteady new teacher while feeling irritated by how the school and its students have changed since the pandemic. Then word comes of the death of his birth father, whom he has not seen for a long time. Since leaving home with his mother, Yoshito has kept his father's existence far from his memory, but as the season of the Saijo Festival begins in his hometown, the few memories he has of his father come back. To face the father he did not know, Yoshito traces the past and looks at the pain that remains within him.
For Times Like These
- People who carry memories of a parent they grew apart from
- People who feel irritation or fatigue in the work of teaching
- People who are looking for words to acknowledge their own journey or someone else's
Themes
Chapter Flow
- 1春の風のようなひかり 1978
- 2パノプティコン 2022
- 3湊哲治 2022
- 4離郷 1984
- 5故郷 2022
- 6祭りの記憶
- 7御旅所 1982
- 8真鍋陽子 2022
- 9ひかりに照らされて
- 10宮出し 2022
- 11人の凄み 2022
- 12御旅所 2022
- 13同行二人 1984
- 14あとがき
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