Year			2005
Original title			Qian li zou dan qi
Original lang.			Mandarin / Japanese
Country			Hong Kong / China / Japan
Genre			Drama
Length			1:47
Director			Yimou Zhang
Writer			Yimou Zhang Jingzhi Zou
Company			Sony Pictures Classics
Starring			Ken Takakura Shinobu Terajima Kiichi Nakai Jiamin Li Lin Qiu Jiang Wen Show more... Ken Takakura Shinobu Terajima Kiichi Nakai Jiamin Li Lin Qiu Jiang Wen Ken Nakamoto Li Bin Li Ziliang Chen Zhezhou He Zhenbo Yang

For the first time in many years, Takata Gou-ichi (Takakura Ken) takes the bullet train to Tokyo from the quiet fisherman's village where he lives on the northwest coast of Japan. His daughter-in-law, Rie (Terajima Shinobu) had telephoned to tell him that his son, Ken-ichi (Nakai Kiichi) is seriously ill, and asking for his father.

But when he arrives in the city, Takata finds that Rie was not entirely truthful: Ken-ichi has been hospitalized, but after years of painful estrangement, he still refuses to see Takata. Crushed, the old man quietly slips out of the hospital, but not before Rie gives him a videotape to watch. What Takata sees on the tape, Rie hopes, will help him get to know his son again.