In 1945, a year after Chiyo's father dies in the war, she expects him to come back during O-Bon, the Japanese festival of the dead. When he does not return, this 4 year-old girl runs off into the night, meeting a Monk with no ears, a crying Geisha at the cemetery, a Samurai ghost & The Lotus God... Will she reunite with her father? —JPA
Released
United States of America
August 24, 2006
(Palm Springs International Short Film Festival)
Japan
June 25, 2007
(Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia)
Great Britain
July 2, 2007
(Space4 shorts film festival)