Overview
In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a battle between a hunter and a Japanese wolf. He can’t draw the extinct wolf well and struggles to develop the story. One winter’s day, Sosuke finds an animal’s skull while digging foundations at a construction site and takes it home. Is it a Japanese wolf’s skull?
Director and cast
- Show Kasamatsu as Ma Sosuke
- Junko Abe as Midori Kawauchi / Kozue
- Ken Yasuda as Seiichi Kawauchi
- Reiko Kataoka as Aiko Kawauchi
- Hatsunori Hasegawa as Ginzo
- Tōru Shinagawa as Kota Kawauchi (old age)
- Yoji Tanaka as Shioya
- Shunta Ito as Kota Kawauchi (boy)
- Michiyo Yokoyama as Momoko Kawauchi
- Ryuta Furuya as Toshiro Kawauchi
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