Leaving on the 15th Spring

Year: 2013

Actors: Ayaka Miyoshi, Ryûya Wakaba, Rena Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi

Duration: 114 min

Teenage girl Yuna lives on a minor island of Okinawa in Southern Japan. Her island has little technology, no high school and no alternatives to tending to the land or water as a living. Teenagers have to decide to stay and engage the elements or leave for higher education. The island does have a community, however, which comes with a tight-knit culture and idiosyncrasies. How to proceed, progress and evolve become matters of conscience, tension, momentum, and inertia.—aghaemi

Genre: Drama