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Akitsu Springs
Akitsu Springs
7.1
/10
120 Ratings

AKITSU SPRINGS

Akitsu onsen

Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
Japan, 1962
Drama, Romance

Synopsis

The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, Shusaku arrives in Okayama. He meets Shinko, an innkeeper, who inadvertently gives him the will to live as he spies her crying one day. As romance blossoms, the secret death wish he’d brought with him contends with true love for precedence.

Synopsis

The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, Shusaku arrives in Okayama. He meets Shinko, an innkeeper, who inadvertently gives him the will to live as he spies her crying one day. As romance blossoms, the secret death wish he’d brought with him contends with true love for precedence.