License to Live
Am I dreaming? Did I really exist?
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Produced by Daiei Film
A gentle, introspective drama about a young man awakening to a fractured family and attempting to rebuild connection through the restoration of a shared past.
Having fallen into a coma following a car accident at 14, Yutaka wakes ten years later and realizes that his family is no longer intact: father, mother and sister live at different places, so he decides to reopen the farm that his family once ran.
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