Akitsu onsen 1962 The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, a very ill Shusaku arrives in Okayama He meets Shinko, an innkeeper, who inadvertently gives him the will to live as he spies her crying one day As romance blossoms, the secret death wish hed brought with him contends with true love for precedence in their relationship Based on the book by Shinya Fujiwara