A one-episode punch to the chest about two people who love each other and can't fix what that means when you're young and broke and trapped in the same four walls. The animation is hand-drawn by a legend who knows how to make stillness ache, and the folk singer Morio Agata returns after thirty years to sing directly into your ribs. This isn't a romance that builds to something, it's a romance that quietly collapses under its own weight, and you watch every second of it.
A young couple lives together in 1970s Japan, and their shared life carries a deep, aching sorrow that came to stand for a whole generation of young couples. The original love comic once moved baby boomers to tears. Seiichi Hayashi, the painter who created it, draws and directs this single-episode OVA himself. Folk singer Morio Agata, who had a big hit with a song that grew out of the comic, works with Hayashi again after more than thirty years. The result is a quiet romance given fresh life as a Ganime work.