Two villages build a bridge so a couple can marry. The film treats this act, small, practical, ordinary, as though it matters. That patience, that belief that connection itself is worth the labor, is what makes it stay with you long after the credits.

A swift river cuts through a mountain gorge, splitting two feuding villages. Boys on each bank trade insults and hurl rocks across the water. When a girl offers flowers to the other side as a sign of goodwill, she is hit by stones, and a boy who tries to stop his older companions is struck as well. Affection grows between the two, but the dangerous current and the customs of their villages keep pulling them apart. As the boy reaches manhood, he resolves to build a bridge linking the communities, and the villages join together so the young couple can marry. Okamoto Tadanari directed this romance film, which won the Ofuji Noburo Award at the 32nd Mainichi Film Awards.