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"Kirimajimete, hana wo mumu." (Kiri first flowering in summer) represents "dahatsu" in the seventy-two weather patterns that divide the seasons in Japan. The sun burns through the skin... Winner of the Grand Prix in the Japan Tomorrow category at the 26th Image Forum Festival.
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The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.