Keisaku Okada, an old man of 80, sets out on a journey through the northeeast of Japan, carrying with him the large sum of three million yen. It is late autumn. He visits the famous old temple of Chuson-ji , where he has an unexpected and romantic meeting with an attractive elderly woman. He impulsively gives half of his money to a young couple who intend to marry and set up a small restaurant. The film carefully follows the journey of a man facing his last years, the winter of life, a man who has death on his mind -- I have lived my life as I chose, I intend to take my own way out if I can. How should we accept death when old age brings us closer to it? This is a question we must all consider today in the growth of a graying society in which long life is becoming something that appears more and more of inescapeble course.
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