Sosuke is a young manga artist who lives in central Tokyo. He has reached a dead end in his current work about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He even attempts to look for traces of Japanese wolves in the mountains. One winter's day at the construction site where he works part-time, Sosuke finds an animal skull and takes it home. Could it be a Japanese wolf's skull? He goes back to the construction site at night to investigate further but meets Midori who is accidentally injured when looking for her dog. Spurred on by this meeting with Midori and her family, Sosuke gradually unearths the memories of the past war buried underground in Tokyo.
This is the second feature film for director Masakazu KANEKO following 2016's The Albino's Trees. He co-wrote the screenplay with Genki YOSHIMURA with a cast featuring Shô KASAMATSU (Mask Ward) and Junko ABE (Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai).
The film premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival in 2021 and received a Special Mention in the Ecumenical Jury Award category. It has also screened at TOKYO FILMeX 2021 and in the competition section at the 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), where it won the Golden Peacock Award for Best Film.
Theatrical release in Japan: February 19, 2022
