3 Films & TV Shows Set In Yamagata Prefecture
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Departures
Yamagata Prefecture Tokyo PrefectureThe gift of last memories — Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
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Swing Girls
Yamagata PrefectureGirls meet Jazz!!! — A tale of delinquent and lazy school girls. In their efforts to cut remedial summer math class, they end up poisoning and replacing the schools brass band.
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Only Yesterday
Yamagata Prefecture Tokyo Prefecture The 1980s The 1960sI’m going on a trip with Me — It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, where she begins to reconnect to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.
