Un-Nan - The Legend of the Eight-headed Serpent

Directed by Yoshinari Nishikôri

With Ryô Hashizume, Nana Yanagisawa, Suguru Matsuzawa, Kaoru Hirata and Youki Kato

This film is the second installment in a Shimane trilogy by director Yoshinari Nishikori, following White Ship. Tetsuro, a third-year high school student living in Unnan City, delivers milk produced at his father’s factory to his hospitalized mother every morning. As he approaches graduation, he finds himself troubled by his future path and his feelings for his classmate Takako. His friends Yuji and Kumiko try to help his romance succeed, but things don’t go as planned… Set in Unnan, a region dotted with sites tied to ancient mythology, the film portrays the everyday lives of the people who live there in a gentle human drama.