Village of Dreams

There are twin brothers, nine years old. They live in a rural village in Japan. The time is just after the Second World War. The film tells their childhood. Their mother is a schoolteacher and their father a civil servant. The elderly landlord of the village is inside the account as well. A rough new boy at the school comes into the twins’ lives. And there are three mysterious spirits, appearing in the form of old women. The account moves between what is real and what is imagined. Mieko Harada is in the cast, as are Keigo Matsuyama and Shogo Matsuyama, in Yōichi Higashi’s Japanese film of 1996.