Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
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David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde...
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is fou...
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to ...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...
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