In a poor 19th century rural Japanese village, everyone who reaches the age of 70 has to climb a nearby mountain to die. An old woman is getting close to the cut-off age, and we follow her last days with her family.
April 20, 1905 in Hyogo, Japan
7 February 1943, Katsuragi, Wakayama, Japan
May 5, 1947 in Amakusa-gun, Kumamoto, Japan
May 30, 1937 in Tokyo, Japan
4 April 1947, Yonezawa, Yamagata, Japan
13 November 1942, Fukuoka, Japan
November 6, 1966 in Minato, Tokyo, Japan
July 20, 1937 in Tokyo, Japan
11 April 1924, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
September 26, 1930 in Toyama, Japan
April 6, 1929 in Tokyo, Japan
22 November 1946, Ibaraki, Japan
24 November 1912, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
October 17, 1915 in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
25 January 1943, Tokyo, Japan
November 25, 1936 in Osaka, Japan
31 January 1937, Nagano, Japan
