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Teacher's suitcase
March 11 2003 (over 21 years ago)Rating
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- Director: Teruhiko Kuze
- Genre: Romance
- Runtime: 2 h 35 m
- Country: Japan
Tsukiko is in her late 30s and living alone when one night she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, 'Sensei', in a bar. He is at least thirty years her senior, retired and, she presumes, a widower. After this initial encounter, the pair continue to meet occasionally to share food and drink sake, and as the seasons pass - from spring cherry blossom to autumnal mushrooms - Tsukiko and Sensei come to develop a hesitant intimacy which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love.