At Kichijōji Station, Tokyo, Taku Morisaki glimpses a familiar woman on the platform opposite boarding a train. Later, her photo falls from a shelf as he exits his apartment before flying to Kōchi Prefecture. Picking it up, he looks at it briefly before leaving. As the aeroplane takes off, he narrates the events that brought her into his life...

• Studio Ghibli
• Tokuma Shoten
• Nobuo Tobita
• Youko Sakamoto
• Toshihiko Seki
• Yuri Amano
• Kae Araki
• Jun'ichi Kanemaru
• Ai Satou
• Aya Hisakawa