When Winter Comes

Directed by Yukio Fukamachi

With Chishū Ryū, Kayoko Kishimoto, Eitarō Ozawa, Kamatari Fujiwara and Sadako Sawamura

An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autumn. Along the way, he visits a friend on his deathbed and develops a faint affection for an elegant old woman, but the purpose of his journey is actually to find a place to die. He gives a large sum of money to a young couple, who are poor but have a dream for the future, and tries to throw himself into the sea. The movie depicts the loneliness of an old man who has lost his wife.