In 1945, a year after Chiyo's father dies in the war, she expects him to come back during O-Bon, the Japanese festival of the dead. When he does not return, this 4 year-old girl runs off into the night, meeting a Monk with no ears, a crying Geisha at the cemetery, a Samurai ghost & The Lotus God... Will she reunite with her father?
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19 people
Baba Masanori Director
Budget $80K · United States release August 24, 2006 · Produced in Japan, United States
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$80,000
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Japan · United States
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Original language
English
Release dates
United States · August 24, 2006
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Japan
June 25, 2007 · Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia
United Kingdom
July 2, 2007 · Space4 shorts film festival
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