A journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake recalls a boat trip he took as a boy after WWII to bury his brother's ashes, during which his family grapples with life in occupied Japan.

Kyōzō Nagatsuka
as Kōkichi Onda / Elder Keita Onda

Hideyuki Kasahara
as Keita Onda as a child

Jun Toba
as Kōji Onda

Shima Iwashita
as Fuji Onda

Hinano Yoshikawa
as Yukiko Mizukami

Michiko Hada
as Ms. Komachi

Junji Takada
as Mr. Black Marketeer

Toshiya Nagasawa
as Mr. Demobilized

Sayuri Kawauchi
as Hideko Onda

Shōhei Hino
as Benshi