Dir. Patrick Dickinson
2024 | 95 mins | UK, Japan
Japanese, English with English Subtitles
Lily FRANKY, Ryo NISHIKIDO, Tae KIMURA, Rin TAKANASHI, Aoife HINDS, Ciarán HINDS, Yuri TSUNEMATSU

Showing Times

• Fri 14 Mar: 6pm
• Tue 18 Mar: 12:45pm
• Thu 20 Mar: 12:45pm + 6pm

A tender Beatrix Potter-inspired tale of loss and duty that crosses between Tokyo and the Lake District.

After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo and his son Toshi receive an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. Akiko, their wife and mother, asks them to scatter her ashes at the place she found enchanting as a child – Lake Windermere in England. The two men, along with Toshi’s wife and daughter, travel to England from Tokyo to fulfl her final wish. But the father and son’s fraught relationship threatens to upend their journey.

BBFC Rating

Rated 12A – upsetting scenes