"Little Forest: Winter and Spring"
Synopsis: Unable to blend in with the hustle and bustle of a big city, the ordinary girl Ichiko (Ai Hashimoto) chooses to return to her hometown where she grew up, komori village in tohoku region of Japan. There is not much fashion and civilization here, and the locals live a traditional life of sunrise and sunset, they rely on the sky to eat, rely on their hands to run their lives. Although life is not rich, the heart is full of fullness and joy. Influenced by her mother (Kaori Kirishima), Ichiko seems to have a keen interest in making a variety of delicious and inexpensive dishes by herself. My mother has been missing for a long time, and the memories and reproductions of cooking have become a unique way of communication between mother and daughter. Not to mention the various ingredients taken from nature, how can they waste the best Shaoguang? Accompanied by friends Noriko (Matsuoka Momo) and Yuta (Takao Miura), Ichiko quietly walks through the spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Food is the warmest thing in the world, and it has the power to heal sadness.
The four seasons change in summer, autumn, winter and spring, and the good memories of Ichiko and her mother when she was a child are aroused little by little, and slowly forget the grievances of leaving home, the sorrow of love and not being able to love, and the loneliness abandoned by her mother. Mom's most meal should be the beginning of memory.
Winter has arrived, and Komori has begun to drift snow, and the white snowflakes are falling like willows, enveloping the whole world in a white expanse. We can lie in the clean snow white snow and look at the sky.
There are very few vegetables to eat in winter, but Ichiko still wants to eat them, making bracken pickled in the mountains in the spring into small dishes, and driing persimmons dried from persimmon trees in autumn, and mixing them with frozen radish slices made in winter.
When it snows, you'll also want to eat noodles, pickled herring soup with frozen radish, wild vegetables and winter shoots.
In the impetuous world, Komori seems so quiet and indisputable.
Ichiko likes to eat sweets to relieve stress. The red beans planted in the spring are picked, dried, selected, and stored, and when the cold winter comes, you can make red bean cakes, red bean buns, and you can also make soup ingredients and red bean cakes. Enjoy a good time with friends.
These pictures also moved me: people and the land, and the growth of crops are so close and understanding, is this not the highest state of harmony of "the unity of heaven and man"? I was touched when she walked up the hill and casually said the name of each plant that passed by, and she spoke of the growth advantages and disadvantages of each vegetable crop. I felt that she herself grew like a plant in Komori. At first, I thought it was spring as the beginning, but after reading it, I found that it was the order of summer, autumn, winter and spring. At first, Ichiko thinks that she has nowhere to go before escaping to Komori, so she leaves in the Spring Chapter, but at the end of the Spring Chapter, she returns. This time, she is not leaving, she is really going to stay for a long time and love life here.
Will this loneliness also be filled with this very happy life?
Everything is beautiful, self-sufficient, eating is a very happy thing, now more and more people are developing to the city, but forget the most essential life, I miss and my parents and brothers used to live in the countryside, now more is sighing!