Synopsis

Rising 120 meters above the landscape, the Daibutsu, or Great Buddha, stands in Ushiku City, Ibaraki Prefecture. At its base stretches one of the Kanto region's largest cemeteries, a place of poignant remembrance. During the Obon festival, visitors flock to tend the graves of departed loved ones. Parents recount stories of sons lost to cancer, young people gather at the graves of friends taken too soon by accident, and children, with heartfelt gratitude, polish the stones marking the resting pla